N. Korea: First-ever Video of Public Execution Smuggled Out(PHOTOs here; Japan's N-TV to air video)

The Daily NK ^ | 03/16/05 | N/A

[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korea: First-ever Video of Public Execution Smuggled Out

• time: 03/01/05(two prisoners), 03/02/05(one prisoner)
• location: Obong-ri and Yuson Worker's District, Hoiryong City, N. Hamkyong Province
• charge: Helping people with escaping N. Korea
• brief description:
  • In front of thousands of people, including children, public trials were conducted and the execution were carried out.
  • Shows prisoners falling down after being shot.

More description of video:

• 11 prisoners are led out in front of large crowd.
• Public trials follow. After prisoners were sentenced, a voice says, "Carry it out, immediately!"
• Each prisoner is tied to a pole.
• firing squad(police/security personnel) is 10-15 meter away from the prisoner. The squad fires 3 bullets to his head, 3 to his chest, and 3 to his abdomen, the total of 9.
• Upon the sound of gunfire, the tied prisoner's body fall forward and the rope which tied him would be cut loose in the process.

N-TV of Japan would air this video today(03/16/05) at 5:25pm, in a program, 'News Plus 1.'

	Mar 1, 2005, in Hoiryong City. Crowds were gathered up by the authorities for the public execution. According to N-TV estimate, the crowds numbered thousands. On this day, security/police agents in Hoiryong showed up at various places in the city, rounding up people and sent them to the public execution site.
	Some people at the site are sitting on their bike, watching the execution.
	The car shown here carries a loud speaker through which the proceeding of public trials is broadcast(to the crowd.)
	Two prisoners were tied to their poles(It was verified that they are Choi Jae-gon, and Park Myong-gil, workers at "Jan. 17" Factory.)
	One on the left slumps forward after being shot.
	A prisoner transport vehicle for prisoners is shown.
	Eleven prisoners are led out to the trial site.
	Crowds at the site
	snapshot No. 1: prisoner's body starts to fall down after being shot snapshot No. 1
	snapshot No.2: his body went down halfway.
	snapshot No.2: almost to the ground.

[headsonpikes]

Excellent post, Tiger!

The final fruit of socialism is genocide.

[RayChuang88]

I can say this: when North Korea is finally freed from its domination by Kim Jong-Il we will find atrocities that will do both Hitler and Stalin proud. :(

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #22

Right. There would be a lot more we haven't seen.

[sunnysky]

Quote "I'm as pro-life as you get.
If you want to see those pictures, stand out front of a Promise Keepers rally."

I am just pointing out that both nations have much blood on their hands. I know as an American that we sometimes tend to think that we have a monopoly on the "higher standards"

We do not.

North Korea is guilty of MUCH...as are we.

[bored at work]

agreed :^)

[BureaucratusMaximus]

charge: Helping people with escaping N. Korea

(snicker)

Well gee, why would anyone want to leave N. Korea?

The libs would have us believe that its a socialist paradise...I mean cmon! People wanting to leave? Thats preposterous. Somebody better call john kerry...I'm sure he has a plan to deal with this.

[quantfive]

"North Korea is guilty of MUCH...as are we."

The process of murder by the hands of your goverment for pushing freedom to me is a seperate issue of pro-life or pro-choice. I am pro-life and find abortion heinous but the decision was by we the people, not some 5 ft. nothing loser.

[servantoftheservant]

Well, not to hijack the thread, but the decision to guarantee abortion was not made by 'we the people'. It was made by judicial whimsy, specifically to get around the will of the 'we the people'.

[Physicist]

North Korea is guilty of MUCH...as are we.

If it's all the same to you, move there.

[Yardstick]

Which one of the anti-iraq war protest groups was a big supporter of North Korea again?

I think it might have been the World Workers Party.

The Left is so screwed up. If you posted these pics at DU, they wouldn't be able to voice any kind of unified comdemnation of what they saw. Some would be critical, but others would defend it or rationalize it. They'd start arguing, people would start shouting, and the moderators would end up having to lock the thread.

For them the only evil that is beyond debate is George W. Bush.

[George from New England]

The same death penalty will await those who took these pictures.
Sadly, they may never know WHO took the images, but they WILL find someone, and place blame, then execute that person for this anyway, guilty or not. Example will be made.

Murderous regime.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #31

Reports from the Sino-N.Korean border say N. Korean regime is frantically trying to contain this kind of development, i.e., video/audio information flowing in and out of country unchecked.

[TNdandelion]

Preaching to the choir.

[Brian Allen]

<< the miserable little SOB not knowing if he was coming or going, hence: public executions to sate his rage. >>

Come on, be fair.

You'd be pissed off, too, if in eight years he bemanured our once white house the only fat little blow-jobbers KKKling Tong ever sent you were Jimmah KKKartah and Notat Allbright!

[cherokee1]

The Northgooks have a camera? I thot they just got scissors? Remember the recent haircut rule---promulgated to save energy? Whater they doing with the hair? Maybe the factory that had the firing squad was processing the Runt's hair crop? I'm checking the fotos for compliance with the haircut rule-----

[SevenofNine]

Damnn Tiger something out of Middle Age or out how they execute POW in Korean war

That so backward

[Honor above all]

Amen and amen.

[Stellar Dendrite]

How DARE we make judgements about other countries and what they do with their people!! This is a part of their culture....don't you people GET it? Maybe they don't WANT freedom? Have you redneck, bible thumping, bigoted, homophobes ever thought about this??
/extreme sarcasm

[WakeUpAndVote]

Gee, I bet this will be shown on NBCABCCBSMSNBCCNN tonight.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It will only be shown on MSNBC/CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/PBS-TV tonight if it is sent off with the mistaken title of "South Korean execution of political dissidents", or something like that.

The minute the US controlled media catches on that it instead badmouths/exposes NORTH KOREA (Communist) they won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

They are going to have a lot of explaining to do (just like in Iraq after Saddam) when crews go into North Korea and uncover all the mass graves and torture chambers upon Liberation. Then, and only then, will vast sums of the American people actually be introduced to North Korea's brutality, even though they could easily be introduced to it (like tonight for example).