North Korea Executing Pregnant Women, Homosexuals, Sterilising Disabled People: Report

A study issued by South Korea's Unification Ministry, North Korea has perpetrated terrible human rights abuses. According to the Daily Mail, this includes executing toddlers and pregnant women, conducting human experiments, and forcefully sterilizing disabled individuals.

According to the report, North Korea publicly killed a six-month pregnant woman, conducted human experiments, and forced women on the "list of dwarfs" to have hysterectomies. According to the evidence, the dictatorship pushed nurses to create a "list of dwarfs" and performed hysterectomies on a dwarf woman, as well as conducting human experiments.

North Korea Executing Pregnant Women

The six-month pregnant woman was killed because a widely distributed video showed her pointing to a photo of the late Kim Il-sung while dancing in her house.

The report from the South's Ministry of Unification also stated that the hermit kingdom executed residents for being homosexual, practicing their religion, or attempting to leave the country. South Korea's Unification Ministry is in charge of inter-Korean relations. The ministry's 450-page study showed that North Korea executed individuals for narcotics, distributing South Korean media, and religious activities.

According to Reuters, the testimony gathered from more than 500 North Koreans who escaped their nation between 2017 and 2022 exposes grave human rights violations in North Korea.

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According to the minister's assessment, the right to life of North Korean citizens appears to be severely threatened. He went on to say that executions are frequently carried out for offenses that do not warrant the death sentence, such as drug trafficking, the dissemination of South Korean movies, and religious and superstitious activities.
The ministry released its annual report to the public for the first time on Thursday, aiming to shed light on the North's "gruesome" human rights violations, according to the Daily Mail.

Six youths were killed by gunfire in North Korea after watching South Korean television footage and consuming opium at a stadium in Wonsan, Kangwon Province. It also reveals that the dictatorship conducted human experiments, with officials from the Ministry of Social Security reportedly blackmailing families into allowing their relatives to become human test subjects under the threat of sending them to prison camps.

Human volunteers were allegedly surreptitiously given sleeping medications and forcibly brought to a facility named Hospital 83 to undertake various experiments. Handicapped people, notably those with dwarfism, were also denied their human rights and subjected to medical operations against their will, according to the Daily Mail.