The 2022 Criminal Law revision raised the number of drug offences from four to eight and made three of them capital, up from two in the 2015 code. The ladder now covers loss, illegal supply, opium poppy cultivation, opium extraction, manufacture, storage, smuggling or trading, and use. The top tier for extremely large manufacture or trafficking is life imprisonment or death with confiscation.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for North Korea here.
References
- 2020년 전후 북한의 인권정책 동향 분석과 평가 - 법규 제정을 중심으로 -pp. 5–6, Table 2
Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read.