Crime Stats: compare key data on North Korea & United Kingdom

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Justice system > Punishment > Capital punishment (last execution year): Year of last use.
Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murder rate per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
Violent crime > Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murders per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.

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STAT	North Korea	United Kingdom
Illicit drugs	for years, from the 1970s into the 2000s, citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK), many of them diplomatic employees of the government, were apprehended abroad while trafficking in narcotics, including two in Turkey in December 2004; police investigations in Taiwan and Japan in recent years have linked North Korea to large illicit shipments of heroin and methamphetamine, including an attempt by the North Korean merchant ship Pong Su to deliver 150 kg of heroin to Australia in April 2003	producer of limited amounts of synthetic drugs and synthetic precursor chemicals; major consumer of Southwest Asian heroin, Latin American cocaine, and synthetic drugs; money-laundering center
Justice system > Punishment > Capital punishment (last execution year)	2,013 Ranked 15th. 3% more than United Kingdom	1,953 Ranked 1st.
Violent crime > Murder rate	3,658 Ranked 29th. 5 times more than United Kingdom	722 Ranked 34th.
Violent crime > Murder rate per million people	150.88 Ranked 45th. 13 times more than United Kingdom	11.68 Ranked 94th.
Violent crime > Murders	3,658 Ranked 29th. 5 times more than United Kingdom	722 Ranked 34th.
Violent crime > Murders per million people	150.88 Ranked 45th. 13 times more than United Kingdom	11.68 Ranked 94th.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Capital punishment in Europe (Abolition); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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