North Korea admits public execution at U.N."For felons".

North Korea has acknowledged the existence of public executions at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

At a regular review meeting on North Korea's human rights held in Geneva, Switzerland on the 7th local time, Park Kwang-ho, director of the North Korean Central Court, said, "In principle, executions are closed, but there are exceptions."

Specifically, he explained that public executions are possible if a murderer who has caused serious harm to others as a habitual offender or does not repent of his or her wrongdoings, or if the victim's family strongly wants it.

Director Park also denied the existence of political prison camps, but said anti-state criminals such as spies and terrorists are held separately from ordinary criminals in educational facilities.

At the meeting, member states called on North Korea to improve the system based on the testimony of North Korean defectors that human rights abuses such as torture, abuse, and sexual violence are serious in North Korea's political prison camps and correctional facilities.