DISCUSSES NORTH KOREAN METHODS OF TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT OF COLLABORATORS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 474
• Publication Date: February 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Sociological - Judicial, public trials, punish-
ment
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DISCUSSES NORTH KOREAN METHODS
OF TRIAL AND PUNISB NT OF COLLABORATORS
This report explains the public trials of collaborators, forms
of public punishment known as Tumun (literally, to shut the gate),
and Kunsin (domiciliary confinement), and the methods of confisca-
tion and disposition of collaboratcra' property.
Public trials are convened by people's committees. and the
villagers elect a presiding chairman and jury. Both Tumun and Kun-
sin deprive a person of freedom of movement. The properties of
persons who have fled with the enemy are redistributed to poor farm-
ers or used for war-relief purposes. Grain belonging to a collabora-
tor may be used to supplement military needs.
The following article explains in a question-and-answer form some of the
Communist-instituted methods of punishing collaborators which are new to the
North Korean populace.
Q. Who are tried at public trials?
A. Persons who collaborated with the enemy when the enemy temporarily
occupied the territory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are tried
at public trials. They.include those who through collaboration with the enemy,
persecuted patriotic persons, government personnel of the People's Rel.. :ic,
and their families. Needless to say, those who did not personally commit the
murder of patriots but who nevertheless sold patriots or their families to the
enemy or in any other way helped the enemy, shall be put to public trial.
r- Q. Who organizes public trials and how?
A. First, a general meeting of the villagers is called, and a presiding
c'airman for the public trial and a jury of two members must be elected. The
trial chairman and the jury, who represent the people in the trial of traitors,
must be men of intelligence, justice, patriotism, and public confidence, who are
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loyal to the people and to the country. The chairman of the local people's
committee concerned may convene a public trial. Several days in advance, he
shall announce that the public tri,i will be held, giving pertinent informa-
tion such as the defendant's name, age, place of permanent domicile, present
address, occupation, a brief account of his offense, date and place of the
trial, etc.
Q. What authority do the participants Zexcluding the accuse] have?
A. The participants may at any time present evidence, witnesses, and
testimony. The accused may answer the charges and argue his case. Partici-
pants of public trials may decide on whether the accused is guilty or not
guilty, whether to refer the case to the people's court, and if it is not to
be sent to the people's court, what form of public punishment is to be admin-
istered.
Q. What is the nature of public punishment known as Tumun and Kunsin?
A. Tumun is a form of social sanction which prohibits a person from all
freedom of movement for a given period of time, except for the necessary trips
to and from work and trips to public offices made in compliance with summons.
The person under Tumun punishment must display at all times during the punish-
ment period a Tumun-punishment sign, written plainly in red on a white cloth,
3 centimeters wide and 7 centimeters long, attached horizontally on the outer
clothing over the right chest. He must also display a Tumun sign on the gate
of his home (where there is no gate, on the house where it is visible from the
street). The Tumun punishment period is from 3 to 6 months.
Kunsin is also a form of social discipline under which a person is
strictly prohibited freedom of movement, but is not required to wear a special
sign. The period of Kunsan is from .,ne to 3 months. The names of those who
have received Tumun or Kunsin punishment and whose repentance is evident and
whose loyalty to the People's Republic is shown and recognized, may be com-
pletely cleared 6 months after the termination of punishment period in case
of Tumun and 3 months in case of Kunsin, in accordance with the decision of the
public trial in that locality.
Q. How is the property of the traitors who have collaborated and fled with
the enemy confiscated and disposed of?
A. The real estate, personal property, and grain of the collaborators
shall be disposed of in accordance with Cabinet Decision No 190. Each provin-
cial people's committee and the Seoul city and Pyongyang city people's com-
mittees shall record all real and personal property of collaborators. The con-
fiscation of the property so recorded at the office of the people's committee
shall be decided upon by the village or ward meeting of loyal citizens. The
decision is subject to approval by the chairman of city or county people's com-
mittee before it is effective.
The confiscation of property must be handled with extreme care. The
property of the citizens who are forced by the enemy to flee shall not be con-
fiscated. In a situation where only the head of a family or members of a
family have fled, the grain necessary for food and seed for spring sowing may
not be confiscated from the members of the family who have not fled.
All of the confiscated property will be redistributed to poor i.rmers
and war-ravaged people. All confiscated grain not yet narvested or thrashed
shall be harvested and thrashed cooperatively. The amount needed b'? ?oor farm-
ers for their spring sowing shall be distributed to them first, and remain-
ing grain shall be used to supplement the regular supply of the Kore" People's
Army and the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces.
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