North Korean justice system treats people as ‘less than animals’: HRW

Torture, humiliation and coerced confessions are rampant in North Korea’s pretrial detention system which treats people as worth “less than an animal”, a rights group said Monday in a report on the country’s opaque legal processes. Yoon Young Cheol, another former detainee, added: “There, you are just treated like you are worth less than an animal, and that’s what you end up becoming.”