After observing whether the executions would be carried out, we found that the Yanggang Province Security Bureau temporarily suspended the public execution plan that had been announced this week.
The specific reason has not been revealed, but it seems that the international community’s criticism and concerns about human rights violations, as well as the internal judgment that a cautious response was necessary, played a role.
Earlier, on the 2nd of last month, the U.S. State Department announced that Julie Toner, the special envoy for North Korean human rights, would visit South Korea from the 7th to the 11th to hold a high-level strategic workshop focused on determining accountability for North Korea’s human rights violations. In response, North Korea fiercely criticized Julie Toner’s visit to South Korea through the Korean Central News Agency.
***This article is a translation by Google, so it may differ from the Korean version.
