More on that report from South Korea's unification ministry on human rights abuses in North Korea, this time from the South's Chosun Ilbo:
The government on Thursday published a devastating report on North Korea's human rights abuses compiled from testimonies of about 500 North Korean defectors.
Similar reports had been compiled annually since 2018, but they were kept under wraps as the previous government sought in vain to pacify the North Korean regime.
The latest 450-page report details shocking abuses in political prison camps, public executions of teenagers and pregnant women, torture, medical experiments on living bodies and forced labor.
It was compiled based on interviews the Center for North Korean Human Rights Records has conducted since 2017 with 2,075 defectors at resettlement facility Hanawon.
One defector recalled that six teenagers aged 16-17 were executed by firing squad for watching South Korean videos and using drugs in Wonsan in 2015. In 2017, a woman in the sixth month of pregnancy was publicly executed on charges of pointing a finger at the portrait of regime founder Kim Il-sung while dancing in a room of her house in a video that had gone viral.
In 2014, when a woman gave birth in a detention facility after she was forcibly repatriated from China, a guard killed the baby because it had "Chinese blood."...
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