Romanian Uprising: Dec. 22, 1989
Posted on 12/08/2009 5:59:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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N. Korea: Two Executed by Firing Squad for Using Others to Swap Old Bills for New
2009.12.08 09:24
There is a report that two businessmen were executed by firing squad, which was carried out off the public view. They tried to get around (strict) rules for currency swapping.
Quoting its source inside N. Korea, Open Radio for N. Korea, which broadcasts into N. Korea, reported on Dec. 7 that two businessmen in the city of Pyongsung, who had old bills totaling 11 million Won(N. Korean currency unit) from their sales, tried to convert them into new bills by distributing them to their acquaintances in blocks of 100,000 Won (note: the maximum limit allowed for the swapping per person,) who were then asked to swap the bills for them, and get to have 50% cut. They got caught in the act on Dec. 4 and the authorities executed them by firing squad for this criminal act.
Pyongsung residents reportedly found it too harsh for shooting them for taking care of what is their own money after all, and are sympathetic (to the executed.) They also feel that the execution is a clear indication that the authorities are quite resolved to get this through no matter what.
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Sometimes that has the exact opposite effect. It enrages the population past the tolerance point. Like the French Revolution, Louis xvii THOUGHT HE WAS IN COMPLETE CONTROL.................
I keep up with everything you post and more so I’m up to date on what’s going on, I was just trying to be funny.
Considering what I’ve read before on the effectiveness of the brainwashing of the NK populace, I think the unrest we’re seeing is VERY significant.
After watching everyone around you perish from starvation or execution by the state you’d think that someone in the army would decide that it would better to die fighting than whimpering in the street. It’s amazing how much people can take.
After NK is liberated the atrocities of places like Camp 22 may wake the world up to what are important topics of debate for world bodies like the UN.
They are used to get their way. They have well-horned measures which delivered time and time again. It is just that they no longer do eventually.
BOY that regime don’t take no mess
Local party officials, police and security agents know many of people they are facing day to day. They know whose family starved to death, and whose family member wandered off to look for food, never to return. They themselves have been through acute famine. Their relatives may barely make the living by peddling piddly stuff at the market. It is all so personal. So they begin to waver, not in the sense that they actively oppose the regime, but become lukewarm toward ruthlessly carrying out order from top. When people curse at the authorities for new draconian economic measures, they tried to do their job, but they also know angry people have legitimate beef and are sympathetic to them deep down. They do not want to drag out and punish them. They just hope they disperse soon, so that they are not forced to act. Even some security personnel are telling N. Korean refugee, who got caught escaping to China and eventually to S. Korea, that they should make better plan so that they could not have to be caught in the act. They feel that everybody's life is miserable, and if some N. Korean wants to go to S. Korea, have three meals a day, and take a huge breather from daily hardship, even they would find it hard to go down so brutally on them. They would rather not do it. In the mean time, these security agents or border guards line their pocket as much as they can. In their society, accumulating money is only thing that could alleviate their misery and insurance for bleak and depressing future. This is the recent development in N. Korea. It is relatively new. I think we are seeing what could be the initial symptom of regime fall.
These people in the province are not like people living in Pyongyang, many of whom I hear completely cut off from the rest of population. Some of them know nothing of what goes on in the country side. That is, they know less than we do about ordinary N. Korean people. They are in a complete bubble.
On the other hand, many of them travel a lot and hear things from foreign contact or foreign news on what is going on. If they are in a business or trading outfits, they do know economic situation and the regime has no way out economically. This inevitably means that they personally have no future, either. So they develop some temptation to bail out or run away.
We’re nearing the 20th anniversary of the toppling of the Ceausescu Regime in Romania. Perhaps we’ll see a replay in NoKo.
I wonder if China is getting tired of this doofus regime?.......At some point in time they may “pull the plug.”.................
Move a few decimal points to the right and ergo, Prosperity! That's why govts love fiat currency and not gold - you can't say an ounce of gold now only weighs a half ounce.
[Sidebar] Back in the '60s, the military used a different tactic. My brother was in Korea and the troops there were paid in MPCs instead of US dollars, as back then foreign govts could still trade dollars for gold. He had arrived only a few days earlier and was out near the barbed wire that surrounded the base. The local prostitutes were throwing WADS of MPCs over the fence to the GIS, who were picking them up as fast as possible. WTF?? says my brother, who grumbled that he arrived too late to get any of the "dough".
Early the next a.m., MPs and officers flooded the barracks and said that there was a new issue of MPCs and anyone who had more than $100 worth of the old bills better have an explanation or they were off to the stockade for black marketeering. (The wise old hands didn't fall for the trick and passed on picking up any "free" money.) The switch was supposed to be super secret but the prostitutes got wind of it and "gave" the money back to the GIs, figuring they'd lose all if they kept it but would eventually screw their way back to prosperity.
Take note that the full film is 10 parts --they are there
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Are people often executed for trying to get around (lax) rules?
Department of in on the joke?
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