South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) recently released an updated version of North Korea’s criminal law, and the text reveals important changes in the country during the last six years under Kim Jong Un.

Pyongyang adopted the new legal code in May 2022, and this is the first publicly available version in more than six years. North Korea included the criminal law adopted in July 2015 in its last comprehensive legal collection shared with outsiders in 2016, but had not disclosed any new changes since then despite announcements that there were no less than eight legal code revisions