the death penalty is a cruel and inhuman punishment that infringes upon human dignity and values and the essence of the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution and international human rights treaties; there is a possibility of misjudgment of the death penalty and in case of such misjudgment the damag e cannot be reversed; it is difficult to prove the deterrence effect of the death penalty; and the executi ons have not been carried out for more than 20 years since December 30, 1997. 2) Questions - Please specify stance regarding accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the International C ovenant on Civil and Political Rights for abolition of death penalty and present plan for official abolition of the death penalty and introduction of an alternative punishment. 11. Human Rights in the Military 1) Current Status - In Korea, assault and cruel treatment in the military continues to happen including the so-called priva te Yoon's Death from assault in 2014 in which the victim who suffered from continued assault, cruel t reatment and bullying has died, Sergeant Lim’s Shooting Rampage at GOP(General Outpost) where the soldier who’s been bullied went on shooting spree against the perpetrators, killing 5 soldiers, and Mari ne Corps Food Torture case in which a senior soldier forced victims to eat a large amount of food an d touched their genitals. - The National Assembly organized a Special Committee on Improvement of Human Rights and Cultur e in the Military in November 2014 to discuss measures to enhance human rights in the military and proposed 39 improvement tasks in July 2015, presenting the result of discussion. Members of the Speci al Committee from both ruling and opposite parties have agreed to designate a ‘military human rights protection officer’ under the NHRCK, an independent military ombudsman capable of carrying out fair and objective research, and proposed related legislation. However, the legislation was faced with opposi tion from the Ministry of National Defense that the military human rights protection officer might caus e confusion regarding the right to command of the military and security issues and repealed with the e nd of 19th session of the National Assembly. Currently at the 20 th session of the National Assembly, a n amendment draft of the National Human Rights Commission Act was proposed and pending which would place the military human rights protection officer under the NHRCK.