Article 1 (Objectives of Administrative Punishment Law) The Administrative Punishment Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea shall serve to correctly regulate unlawful acts and administrative punishment and strictly adopt systems and order in its application to prevent unlawful phenomena and establish a law-abiding ethos in society. Article 2 (Principle of preventing unlawful acts beforehand) The State shall strengthen law-abiding culture and legal control so that all institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens willingly and compulsorily abide by the law and shall prevent unlawful acts beforehand. Article 3 (Principle of combining administrative punishment and social education) The State shall be oriented to social education and combine it with administrative punishment in the struggle against unlawful acts. Article 4 (Principle of guarantee of totality, scientificity, objectivity, caution, fairness) The State shall assure totality, scientificity, objectivity, caution, and fairness in the application of administrative punishment. Article 5 (Principle of legal effect of administrative punishment) This law shall apply to institutions, enterprises, organizations and citizens that have done unlawful acts. This law shall also apply to international organizations or organizations, enterprises, and citizens of other countries that have done unlawful acts in the territory of our country. However, for citizens of other countries that have diplomatic privileges, it shall be resolved according to diplomatic protocol each time. Article 6 (Principle of non-retroactivity and retroactivity) The administrative punishment law at the time of the unlawful act shall be applied to a person who has done an unlawful act. However, in cases where an act seen as an unlawful act in the previous administrative punishment law is not considered an unlawful act in this law, or the administrative punishment has been lowered, this law shall be applied. Article 7 (Subjects of regulation of administrative punishment law) This law shall regulate the unlawful acts to which administrative punishment can be applied, and the type, application process, and method of administrative punishment according to those acts. CHAPTER II. GENERAL REGULATIONS