Posted on 11/11/2013 11:14:04 AM PST by GeronL
Seoul (AFP) - North Korea publicly executed around 80 people earlier this month, many for watching smuggled South Korean TV shows, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.
The conservative JoongAng Ilbo cited a single, unidentified source, but at least one North Korean defector group said it had heard rumours that lent credibility to the front-page report.
The source, said to be "familiar" with the North's internal affairs and recently returned from the country, said the executions were carried out in seven cities on November 3.
In the eastern port of Wonsan, the authorities gathered 10,000 people in a sports stadium to watch the execution of eight people by firing squad, the source quoted one eyewitness as saying.
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"In the eastern port of Wonsan, the authorities gathered 10,000 people in a sports stadium to watch the execution of eight people by firing squad, the source quoted one eyewitness as saying."
They have single payer healthcare, so what’s the problem?
NK is also shortening the wait times for their bureaucratic death panel to make a decision. Execution is so much faster...
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." -George Santayana
What is fundamentally different between the people in the USA and those in North Korea? Answer Nothing. If we give in to more of the police state tactics that have been coming out of all levels of government in the last 20 years this is what we'll have to look forward to.
Or a month in Chi-Congo.
Oh Darn!, Don’t give Obama any ideas!
oops!
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For more about reasons why North Korean think South Korean TV and movies are worth executing someone for, see this primer:
lol. I wonder how many people would think preventing this was worth it? //kidding
The pronunciations in that list are WAAAYYYY off
Wae-yo? Wae?!
I thought so too, but it was still pretty funny.
If you like your bullets you can keep your bullets(internally however). Period.
but I can still walk my turtle without worrying that it will be redistributed as soup to the masses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haTUzvSq01U
Jug Ears likes to use drones, why not sent on to this little sociopath
Look at that N. Korean woman gazing at The Worm for the freakoid that he is.
New Chia Head...same as the old Chia Head.
yep
That looks more like an intelligence agency “minder”.
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