Human rights group locates North Korean execution sites
(WorldNews North Korea)

SEOUL, South Korea - A human rights group said Tuesday it has identified hundreds of spots where witnesses claim North Korea carried out public executions and extrajudicial state killings as part of an arbitrary and aggressive use of the death penalty that is meant to intimidate its citizens. The Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group said its research was based on interviews with 610 North Korean defectors who helped locate the sites with satellite imagery. The group didn`t reveal the exact locations of the 323 sites because it`s worried that North Korea will tamper with them, but said 267 of them were located in two northeastern...