Gyeore’eol Unification Solidarity - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:34:24 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Gyeore’eol Unification Solidarity - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 North Korea executes 2 women who fled and were forcibly repatriated from China https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/09/23/north-korea-executes-2-women-who-fled-and-were-forcibly-repatriated-from-china/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:51:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=176098 North Korea has executed two women who had been forcibly repatriated from China for helping other North Koreans in China escape to South Korea, a human rights organisation told Radio Free Asia. Charged with human trafficking, a 39-year-old woman surnamed Ri, and a 43-year-old surnamed Kang were executed on Aug 31 after a public trial Read more

North Korea executes 2 women who fled and were forcibly repatriated from China... Read more]]> North Korea has executed two women who had been forcibly repatriated from China for helping other North Koreans in China escape to South Korea, a human rights organisation told Radio Free Asia.

Charged with human trafficking, a 39-year-old woman surnamed Ri, and a 43-year-old surnamed Kang were executed on Aug 31 after a public trial in the northeastern port city of Chongjin, according to Jang Se-yul, head of Gyeore'eol Unification Solidarity, based in Seoul.

Nine other women were sentenced to life in prison on the same charges.

All 11 women were among a group of around 500 North Koreans which China forcibly repatriated in October 2023.

"These two women were executed because they had sent North Korean escapees from China to their enemy country, South Korea," Jang told RFA Korean.

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