The Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group analysed satellite imagery and conducted interviews with 683 North Korean defectors over six years to determine how its execution practices have changed since leader Kim Jong-un took power in 2011.
North Korea does not answer questions from foreign reporters or publish reports or data on its judicial system. In the past, North Korea held executions in villages and prison camps where crowds could gather, as a public warning, the group said. "This change in location may provide an explanation of how the state's action is being influenced by the scrutiny of the international community," the group said.
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