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Date : December 29, 2015
5 executed for aiding and abetting escapes
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5 Executed for Aiding and Abetting Escapes


Authorities in North Koreas Yanggang Province back in September executed five  residents for aiding the escape of others from the country. A Daily NK source reported that the provinces state security officials carried out the executions to set an example, as its stricter surveillance and control on the border had failed to reduce the number of those escaping the country. 

People have belatedly learned that five individuals were executed by shooting mid-September in Hyesan for helping people defect, the source from Yanggang Province reported. Theyre building walls and fences along the border, but the number of people escaping hasn't really  dropped neither has those who are helping them. So the execution was to try to set an example. 

Two additional sources residing in Yanggang Province corroborated this news. 

The five who were executed were a couple in Hyesans Kanggu who ran a kindergarten, a woman in her 40s who lived in Songbong-dong 16-ban, and another couple in Kangan-dong 47-ban who worked as smugglers, according to the source, who described all the victims as being very social and independent people who tried to make ends meet with their own businesses. 

In the final sentencing, each person was found guilty of aiding some 80 people in their escapes, but most people say the numbers were overstated, she asserted. People say it would almost be impossible for the five of them to have helped nearly 400 residents flee, and that officials wrongfully used a tally of all those unaccounted for on the resident registry. 

<Source: Daily NK>

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