s authority to overlook the students’ anti-socialist acts – as well as the party and security officials who failed to properly provide party guidance process petitions or enforce the law in the case – were expelled from the party, stripped of their positions or discharged, and exiled to the provinces along with their families….
All seven members of the party committee of Pyongyang Medical University who overlooked the students’ anti-socialist crimes were sent with their families to Chagang Province to work at a calcium carbonate mine in Sijung County and a logging station in Rangrim County. Five officials from the Ministry of Public Security in Chung-guyok who squashed the petition and the Ministry of Public Security officials who were responsible for failing to properly unhold the law during the Pyongcheon incident were exiled with their families to a farm in Rinsan, North Hwanghae Province.
The source said about 60 people were exiled from Pyongyang to the provinces over the matter.
Moreover, North Korean authorities publicly executed the four students at Pyongyang Medical University by firing squad. It seems the authorities opted for a public execution to warn people against anti-socialist acts and to instill caution and fear.
Well, that should sort the problem. No half measures here…
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