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N.Korea says CNN execution image fabricated
Reuters ^ | 26 Nov 05

Posted on 11/26/2005 7:53:30 AM PST by JRios1968

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Saturday called a recent CNN program depicting a public execution in the communist state a "sheer fabrication" and dismissed it as a ratings ploy by the U.S.-based broadcaster.

North Korea takes any criticism of its internal affairs sensitively and brands it a part of U.S. conspiracy to topple the government of its leader, Kim Jong-il.

CNN earlier this month broadcast a documentary, "Undercover in the Secret State," which among other images showed a grainy clip of what it called a public execution by firing squad of a man accused of helping a refugee cross into neighboring China.

"The video tape is full of sheer lies negating the popular and class nature and the democratic principle of the DPRK's laws and tarnishing its image from A to Z," the North's official KCNA news agency said in a commentary.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; execution; fabrication; kimjongil; korea; northkorea
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In typical North Korean fashion, deny deny deny!
1 posted on 11/26/2005 7:53:31 AM PST by JRios1968
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To: JRios1968

Gee CNX faking or the North Koreans? Not as easy a choice to figure out who is faking it as it use to be.


2 posted on 11/26/2005 7:57:00 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("You cannot kill hope with bombs and bullets" Sgt. Clay Smith)
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To: JRios1968

Headline should be "CNN or North Korea Canght Telling the Truth."


3 posted on 11/26/2005 7:58:22 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: MNJohnnie

Good point! MSM lies or North Korean lies? Hard to pick!


4 posted on 11/26/2005 8:01:26 AM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: JRios1968

GASP! CNN would NEVER do anything to fabricate news.
Especially against it's own kind.


5 posted on 11/26/2005 8:02:42 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: JRios1968

Yeah K. Jung I'm - Il , we know that XCNN BS, and you wish the murder images were fake.


6 posted on 11/26/2005 8:02:52 AM PST by demlosers
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To: JRios1968
HEADLINE TYPO!

It should be:

N.Korea says CNX execution image fabricated


7 posted on 11/26/2005 8:04:36 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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HEADLINE TYPO!

It should be:
N.Korea says CNX execution image fabricated


8 posted on 11/26/2005 8:05:04 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: JRios1968
"From A to Z"

LOL! I hate to admit it but I love the way NK puts things.
9 posted on 11/26/2005 8:06:03 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: JRios1968

Uh oh. Friends turning on each other.


10 posted on 11/26/2005 8:07:52 AM PST by Mr. Keys
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To: JRios1968

The big X on the screen was a dead giveaway.


11 posted on 11/26/2005 8:07:57 AM PST by exit82 (Congressional Democrats---treasonously stuck on stupid.)
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To: JRios1968; TigerLikesRooster

That videotape used on CNN had been seen on the internet for months before CNN aired it.


12 posted on 11/26/2005 8:08:46 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: MNJohnnie

Bingo.


13 posted on 11/26/2005 8:14:09 AM PST by Eddie01 (I'm coming to the conclusion I'm really not smart enough to post here.)
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To: JRios1968
RIARS!!!


14 posted on 11/26/2005 8:15:25 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: JRios1968

Hmmm. This creates a dilemma. Who is the most truthful CNN or North Korea? North Korea or CNN? On one hand, you have liars that hate America and on the other you have liars hate everything America stands for. Damn, I just don't know.


15 posted on 11/26/2005 8:37:29 AM PST by Long Distance Rider
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To: JRios1968

multiple choice question: Who do you believe? A) CNX B) N.Korea C) none of the above


16 posted on 11/26/2005 8:39:35 AM PST by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Dallas59

In other news-

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

    Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The "Grand National Party", a general headquarters of flunkeys and traitors and anti-reunification conservative forces, is desperately working to bring back the era of inter-Korean confrontation and the reactionary offensive of the right-wing conservative forces is escalating. It was against this backdrop that the "National League of New Right", a new organization of the right-wing conservative forces, was knocked into shape recently to group all types of fascist remnants including renegades of the "student movement" and conservative hack writers. Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a signed article: This is no more than a foolish fit of those who have no future. Only destruction awaits those who are engrossed in the treacherous moves, swimming against the trend of the times.
    The anti-reunification conservative forces in south Korea are the reactionaries of history as they stand in the way of the people's struggle to achieve independence and reunification, turning their faces away from the changed times.
    The GNP is still betraying the fellow countrymen, swimming against the trend of the times, not away from the old way of thinking dating back to the era of the Cold War.
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We had better watch out. In the war of words, NK has no equal.


17 posted on 11/26/2005 8:44:03 AM PST by Peelod (Decentia est fragilis. Curatoribus validis indiget.)
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To: JRios1968
Hells Bells, I would really like to go over to N. Korea and see for myself .....

Except I would be EXECUTED ON SITE as a Imperialist Pig & a Christian !

18 posted on 11/26/2005 8:55:26 AM PST by austinmark ("May the Flea's of a Thousand Camels Nest in ALLAH's Pubic Hair" !!!)
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To: JRios1968

This is a tough one. Which is the least credible? N Korea, Reuters or CNN?


19 posted on 11/26/2005 9:45:37 AM PST by wny
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To: JRios1968

10 Years ago I'd have just figured Kim was making this all up. But these days who knows he just might be right.

I mean who you gonna believe a tin pot communist dictator or cnn ?

I tell you its a real tossup.


20 posted on 11/26/2005 11:25:04 AM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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