North Korea expands list of crimes punishable by death: report

North Korea is expanding its list of crimes punishable by death, according to reports.

Supreme person Kim Jong Un's authorities expanded the database of offenses warranting the decease punishment from 11 to 16 via revisions of transgression law, according to Yonhap News Agency.

New offenses warranting execution arsenic a punishment include: anti-state propaganda and agitation acts, amerciable manufacturing, and the illicit usage of weapons are included successful the caller codes. 

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North Korean person Kim Jong Un delivers a code during a gathering of Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea successful Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

The ineligible modifications were codified via aggregate amendments betwixt May 2022 and December 2023, according to a study from the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). 

The tightening of the transgression codification is intended to fortify the Kim regime's grip connected the colonisation done its continued monopolization of the marketplace and military. 

Earlier this month, North Korea promised to refine its weapons improvement and fortify its atomic capabilities. 

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Kim Jong Un made the comments Monday astatine a authorities lawsuit celebrating the country's 76th anniversary.

"The evident decision is that the atomic unit of the DPRK and the posture susceptible of decently utilizing it for ensuring the state's close to information successful immoderate clip should beryllium much thoroughly perfected," the dictator said.

A 24-hour Yonhapnews TV broadcast astatine Yongsan Railway Station successful Seoul, South Korea shows North Korean person Kim Jong Un overseeing the test-fire of a caller tactical ballistic missile, the Hwasongpho-11-Da-4.5. (Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"DPRK" is an abbreviation for North Korea's authoritative name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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Kim Jong Un warned that the United States' accrued engagement successful the portion has forced the authorities to pursue much almighty weapons arsenic a deterrence mechanism.

"The DPRK volition steadily fortify its atomic unit susceptible of afloat coping with immoderate threatening acts imposed by its nuclear-armed rival states and redouble its measures and efforts to marque each the equipped forces of the state, including the atomic force, afloat acceptable for combat," the ultimate person said.

The 14th Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral legislative assemblage of the country, amended the nationalist constitution past twelvemonth to enshrine atomic weaponization arsenic a halfway principle.