North Korea news: Kim has been accused of having a host of execution sites (Image: GETTY)
A recent report claimed there could be a total of 323 state-sanctioned execution sites within the country. The report, conducted by South Korean human rights group Transition Justice Working Group, spoke to 610 North Korean defectors who alleged the information of the execution sites with the aid of satellite imagery. In addition to the shocking revelation, the report added that the executions are typically carried out in public areas such as “market places” and “school grounds”.
The report suggested: “The North Korean government’s routine killing of its citizens and the denial of the right of family members to give the dead a proper burial has profound effects that last long after the event.”
Moreover, “brief trials” are also carried out on the spot immediately before a public execution.
Without a legal counsel, the defendant is often brought before judgement often "half dead" the report alleged.
The report said: “Brief ‘trials’ almost always occur on the spot immediately before a public execution, where charges are stated and a sentence given without legal counsel for the accused, who very often
