Crime in North Korea

Many people in North Korea are stricken with poverty and as a result, often resort to extreme measures in order to survive.

This category of offence includes anything which threatens the socialist system – for example, running a private business, or stealing agricultural goods such as corn, rice or potatoes.

They were freed later the same year, when Bill Clinton visited the then-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to negotiate their release.

In April 2013, American tour operator Kenneth Bae, also known as Pae Jun Ho, was accused of plotting to overthrow the North Korean government.

[4] In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the country.

[citation needed] Strict rules and draconian punishments imposed by the regime against, for example, accessing foreign media, are commonly evaded by bribing the police.