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The U.S. State Department reported in its 1999 human rights report that North Korea continues to deny its citizens human rights, saying there continue to be extrajudicial killings and disappearances. The U.S. State Department also said that the North Korean penal code is draconian, stipulating capital punishment and confiscation of all assets for a wide variety of crimes against revolution, including detention, attempted defection, slander against the policies of the party or state, listening to foreign broadcasts, writing revolutionary letters and possessing reactionary printed matter.