Someone else further down even pointed out that it was actually the British that strapped people to cannon muzzles to execute them, not the DPRK
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It's called 'being blown from a gun', and yes, it's British in more recent history.
Iirc the br*ts chose that execution method as a way to disrupt burial rites which required the entire body. So it wasn't just an over the top brutal execution but a way to punish the victims even in death