North Korea Executes Two Fortune Tellers Amid Crackdown on ‘Anti-Socialist Behavior’

North Korea Executes Two Fortune Tellers Amid Crackdown on ‘Anti-Socialist Behavior’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in as they visit on the top of Mount Paektu in Mount Paektu, North Korea on Sept. 20, 2018. Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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North Korean officials publicly executed two female fortune tellers in March and forced tens of thousands of people to watch in Chongjin city, according to Radio Free Asia.

A source told RFA that “public trials and executions have resumed this year, with judicial authorities holding these trials in multiple locations for reasons of maintaining social order.”

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Jack Phillips
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