Human rights abuse: North Korea executing pregnant women, homosexuals, alleges South Korea report

Human rights abuse: A report by South Korea's Unification Ministry has come out with some chilling details of alleged human rights abuses in North Korea. It claims that the communist regime is executing pregnant women, homosexuals. It is also carrying out human experiments and forcibly sterilising disabled people, the report alleged.

The report claimed that North Korea publicly executed a six-month pregnant mother, carried out human experiments and forced women from 'list of dwarfs' to undergo hysterectomies. The regime forced nurses to make 'a list of dwarfs' and conducted hysterectomies on a woman with dwarfism, as well as human experiments, the testimony revealed.

Pregnant woman executed

The six-month pregnant woman was executed because a widely circulated video showed her pointing at a portrait of the late Kim Il-sung while dancing in her home, the report alleged.

The hermit nation also put citizens to death for being homosexual, for their religion and for trying to flee the country.

South Korea's Unification Ministry handles inter-Korean affairs. The 450-page report by the ministry revealed that North Korea also executed people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities.

The details were collected from 2017 to 2022 from more than 500 North Koreans who fled from their homeland, news agencies reported.

Right to life threatened

The minister in its report said, "North Korean citizens' right to life appears to be greatly threatened. Executions are widely carried out for acts that do not justify the death penalty, including drug crimes, distribution of South Korean videos, and religious and superstitious activities."

The ministry revealed its yearly report to the public for the first time ever on Thursday as it aims to lift the lid on the North's 'gruesome' human rights abuses, Daily Mail reported.

Teenagers executed for smoking opium

Six teenagers were executed by shooting in North Korea over watching video footage originating from South Korea and smoking opium at a stadium in the city of Wonsan, Kangwon Province.

It also said officials at the Ministry of Social Security allegedly blackmailed families into letting their relatives become test subjects for human experiments. Else they will be sent to prison camps, they threatened.

Human subjects were reportedly fed sleeping pills secretly and forcibly taken to a facility called Hospital 83 to undergo various experiments.

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