NORTH KOREA. PUBLIC EXECUTION VIDEO AIRED IN JAPAN

Asahi TV, a Japanese television channel, aired video footage of a public execution of a woman said to have taken place in Hamju, North Korea on July 10.
The woman was accused of stealing 10 kg of corn from the kitchen of a colleague and murdering the colleague’s 12-year-old daughter in the process. She then allegedly sold the corn for W3,500 (on the black market $US1 is exchanged for 3,000 North Korean won) at a local market and bought food with the money. The video showed the public trial of the woman in April, followed by the execution which occurred out in the open, with young students and residents looking on. It was the second time a tape of a public execution had made it out of North Korea, the first showing a similar incident in Hoeryeong in March 2005.