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'Executions of cell phone users up in N. Korea'
Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun. 14, 2007

Posted on 06/15/2007 4:33:32 PM PDT by Lorianne

North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday.

The phenomenon of executions of those who "circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise," the South's government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification think tank said in a white paper on the North's human rights conditions. No exact figures were given.

North Koreans are officially banned from communicating with the outside world but some of them listen to foreign news and use cell phones through Chinese communication networks, according to North Korean defectors in South Korea. The use of cell phones in North Korea is banned though some are smuggled into the North by Chinese who have links with South Koreans.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cellphones; communism; korea; koreandefectors; nkorea; northkorea; totalitarian
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1 posted on 06/15/2007 4:33:34 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne; TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; All

Hey tiger check this out


2 posted on 06/15/2007 4:35:31 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Lorianne

Well then bomb North Korea with cell phones . . . duh!


3 posted on 06/15/2007 4:35:54 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Lorianne

They kill you for using a cell phone????

What a God-forsaken hell-hole.


4 posted on 06/15/2007 4:36:25 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Lorianne

When one follows a cell-phone-using driver going 40 mph in a 70 mph lane, the NK solution appeals.


5 posted on 06/15/2007 4:36:45 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Lorianne
The obligatory...

Can you hear me now?

6 posted on 06/15/2007 4:37:48 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: RightOnline

And these are the countries the left wants to emulate.


7 posted on 06/15/2007 4:38:58 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: RightOnline

OMG, quick, let’s give them a few more billion in aid so they can feed their army. That should fix it. I know I’d feel better about it.

And if you have to ask.........forget it ;-)


8 posted on 06/15/2007 4:39:09 PM PDT by MPJackal ("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
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To: Lorianne

So, talking on your cell phone while driving is out, right?


9 posted on 06/15/2007 4:41:39 PM PDT by monkeycard
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To: RightOnline
They kill you for using a cell phone????

What a God-forsaken hell-hole

I don't know...the more I have to tolorate those jerks with the stupid thing attached to their ear, the more I agree with North Korea.

10 posted on 06/15/2007 4:41:52 PM PDT by chesty_puller (Old burned-out Marines for Fred.)
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To: kittymyrib

AMEN!


11 posted on 06/15/2007 4:44:46 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Lorianne
Well, there HAVE been a few cell-phone users I'd have liked to have personally executed on the spot....
12 posted on 06/15/2007 4:45:08 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Why can’t we start solving the problem by breaking up Big Government?"- MortMan)
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To: Lorianne

This might appeal to Trent Lott.


13 posted on 06/15/2007 4:45:31 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (The World is Not Enough)
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To: Lorianne

Commie paradise and free speech. Hillary is hoping to duplicate.


14 posted on 06/15/2007 4:46:33 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: Lorianne

I thought cell phone range was limited to few miles. You would think it would be pretty easy for the authorities to limit or cut off service.

Perhaps they mean satellite phones?


15 posted on 06/15/2007 4:48:55 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Tarpon
This is what McCain/Feingold that Bush signed will bring here.
16 posted on 06/15/2007 4:51:18 PM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: the_Watchman

There was a very good documentary on CNN last year, called the “secret” something about North Korea. In it, they showed a few North Koreans using cell phones while hiding, and if I recall correctly, they got reception via South Korean cell towers.


17 posted on 06/15/2007 4:55:58 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: Born to Conserve

did that with radios a few years back. if i remember correctly someone said it was a waste of tax payers money.


18 posted on 06/15/2007 5:01:00 PM PDT by camas
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To: MPJackal

Agreed......and no, I certainly don’t “have to ask”. :)


19 posted on 06/15/2007 5:05:53 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Lorianne

Pork bellies are up, too.


20 posted on 06/15/2007 5:08:17 PM PDT by Silly (http://www.paulklenk.us)
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