Posted on 03/05/2008 1:43:09 PM PST by knighthawk
Seoul - Fifteen North Koreans have been executed because they illegally crossed the border with China. The South Korean humanitarian organisation Good Friends says they did so in search of food. The group which consisted of 13 women and two men, was shot dead in a public execution on a bridge in the town of Onseong.
The humanitarian organisation says the local population was extremely shocked by the incident. Border crossings by starving North Koreans are a daily occurrence. Many North Koreans have family or friends in China and visit them illegally.
Normally, anyone caught crossing the border is sent to prison. According to Good Friends, a North Korean official says the severe punishment is intended as an example to others.
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In North Korea, prison is just a slightly slower way to die.
apparently china takes border security seriously.
So were they executed by the Chinese government, or the North Korean?
North Korean.
Hey, 15 less mouths to feed. I wonder if the N. Koprean population is actually shrinking due to starvation and low birth rates.
Imagine how bad it is when you have to leave your country to go to China.
The world leaders and the world media ignores these atrocities though, just as they do with Africa. All of the starving, horrible torture and genocide.
They’re too busy pointing fingers at the evil US and Israel, with our waterboarding of terrorists, and Israel’s attempts at containing terrorists.
Relax, in America it is illegals that do the executing.
That’ll teach them. They will never do that again.
Yeah!!
Someone needs to stick up for the abominable status quo! I mean, “feel good”ism is just not demonstrated enough outside of the radical left!
So, what’s it matter that it costs us, as a nation, billions of dollars a year? And what’s so bad about “rape trees” adorned with the bloody underwear of women gang raped by their coyotes? I mean, filthy human traffickers deserve to have sex too, dont they?
We sooo don’t have enough sweat shops filled with near slave level chattel! And the sex slave market is a win win too in the victimless crime “service” industry!
But, for sure, and for truth! Anyone standing up to confront the current system must be a nazi, or a fascist or...or... or something really mean!
13 women? Any word from NOW about the killing of women just looking for food?
"North Korea was tearing down anti-American posters that line the streets of Pyongyang in preparation for the New York Philharmonic's unprecedented visit, the ensemble's president said Sunday on the eve of departure. The musicians said they hoped personal contacts with North Koreans could help bring the countries closer. But some also worried their performance Tuesday wouldn't change anything, and instead be misused for propaganda in the communist country that technically remains at war with the U.S. The Philharmonic's president and executive director, Zarin Mehta, said North Korea had met the group's requests that the largest possible audience hear the concert. The performance will be staged in a larger hall and will be broadcast live on radio and TV."
Oooooh Obama, what do /you/ think should be done about North Korea? No, no, we’re talking about the fifteen people who tried to leave the country because they were hungry and were executed. You know, all those women...?
Man, what a classic deer in the headlights moment that would be.
I’m sure the ACLU and the entire liberal democratic party are OUTRAGED! You can tell by the deafening silence. If they would’ve taken POWs and put them in a pig pile however...
It says a lot about the US that we’re worried about how to keep people out, while other nations do something like this to keep people in.
Have’t you heard? Obamalamadingdong will be kind to the dictators, talk to them, probably offer wine and cheese....
This man is Jimmy Carter x 100 - America would never be safe with him in charge.
Another success story for advocates of appeasement of evil.
What a proud moment for members of the NY Philharmonic just a mere week after their Kumbaya visit to North Korea!
The regime must have really moderated if only 13 peasants were publicly executed for being hungry!
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