On November 3, 2013, according to a JoongAng Ilbo report, at least 80 people were publicly executed for minor offenses.
In 2014 the United Nations Human Rights Council created a Commission of inquiry on human rights in the DPRK, investigating and documenting many instances of executions carried out with or without trial, publicly or secretly, in response to political and other crimes that are often not among the most serious.