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CHINA: 2 KOREAN SMUGGLERS EXECUTED
August 6, 2014: China executed two South Korean men in Jilin Province for drug trafficking and trading convictions, the first death sentence for Korean citizens carried out in the country in a decade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The two men, a 52-year-old identified only by his surname Kim, and a 44-year-old identified only as Baek, were arrested in April 2011 in the northeastern province for smuggling and selling methamphetamine, a serious crime in China.
Between 2010 and 2011, Kim and Baek, whose occupations are unknown, were involved in smuggling around 14.8 kilograms of methamphetamine - also known as philopon - from North Korea into China. (Sources: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, 07/08/2014)
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