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Seoul identifies 245 North Koreans involved in human rights violations

Information will be used to hold violators "criminally liable" after unification, says MOJ

A South Korean government-run organization has tracked down and identified hundreds of North Koreans it says are responsible for human rights violations, South Korean lawmaker Yoon Sang-jick said on Monday.

The North Korean Human Rights Documentation Office, an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), was established in October last year and had identified the 245 offenders by late September.

Most of the accused were identified as belonging to the country’s “power apparatus”: the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of People’s Security.

“Their suspicions not only include harsh acts including assault on citizens and torture but also anti-humanitarian contents