Senior Soldier Fined $5,200 for Forcing Subordinates to Chant ‘Long Live Kim Jong Un’

Senior compelled subordinates to chant “Long live Kim Jong-un.”
When they refused, he assaulted them, resulting in a $5,200 fine

A man in his 20s, who habitually assaulted and tormented his junior soldiers during his military service, has been fined.

On the 24th, Judge Hyeon Seon Hye of the 10th Criminal Division of the Incheon District Court announced that she had fined Mr. A, 24, who was charged with abuse of power, cruelty, coercion, and assault, 7 million won (approximately $5,200).

 

Mr. A was charged with assaulting two junior soldiers five times with his fist at the military barracks in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, around 10:30 pm on September 10th last year, after they refused his command to shout “Long Live Kim Jong-Un, Long Live Putin.”

In mid-August of the same year, he also caused a junior soldier to fall by spraying water from a box at him while showering in the unit’s shower room.

Also, he assaulted junior soldiers by pushing them under the guise of testing their reflexes or pressing hard on their heads with a mock gun, a training aid.

He repeatedly committed acts of cruelty, such as forcing a junior soldier who was showering to lie prone in the nude even while being watched by a fellow soldier from the same unit. He also forced junior soldiers to attend religious events and assaulted them by choking them and bending their arms if they refused.

It was found that the number of victims from the same unit who were assaulted or subjected to cruelty by Mr. A reached a total of 10.

Judge Hyeon stated the reason for the sentencing, saying, “The nature of the defendant’s crime is not good,” but also considered that “he generally admits his crime and all the victims expressed during the investigation process that they do not want punishment.”