North Korea 'Publicly Executes 80 People for Watching

[drunkenshoe]

North Korea 'Publicly Executes 80 People for Watching South Korean TV Shows'

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/52116 ... -seoul.htm

North Korea has publicly executed 80 people across seven cities for watching South Korean television shows, according to inside sources.

An unidentified source "familiar" with North Korean internal affairs told the conservative South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo that the simultaneous executions took place on 3 November.

If confirmed, these are the first large-scale public executions under Kim Jong-un.

The report said the North Koreans were charged with relatively minor offences such as watching smuggled South Korean shows and pornography. Some of them are believed to have been punished for possessing the Bible in the Communist nation.

The source is reported to have recently visited North Korea.

A witness apparently told the source that North Korean authorities had gathered about 10,000 people including children in a local stadium in Wonsan to watch the execution by firing squad. At least eight people, with their heads covered, were tied to stakes as North Korean forces opened fire at them, according to the report.

"I heard from the residents that they watched in terror as the corpses were so riddled by machine-gun fire that they were hard to identify afterwards," the witness is quoted as saying.

The executions reportedly took place in seven provinces including Kangwon, North Hamgyong, North Hwanghae and South Pyongan. No executions occurred in the capital Pyongyang.

Relatives of the executed people have also been jailed for aiding the accused.

Other Seoul-based websites, including the ones run by North Korean defectors, have not released any information about the executions.

Such executions are not uncommon in North Korea. In the past, Pyongyang was said to have ordered public executions for religious activism and possession of mobile phones.

I take it back what I said before. Somebody tell Uncle Sam to invade the fuck of out of this shit. But is it profitable enough?

[Shiranu]

Somebody tell Uncle Sam to invade the fuck of out of this shit.

I have the feeling Kim would just nuke his own country and people, or at the very least launch everything at South Korea, before the U.S. could disable his forces. So in that regard I think it is very much not profitable.

[Jason78]

You'd think that the death penalty would act as a deterrent.

[Sal1981]

I think the same would happen, but to a larger degree, what happened in Iraq: The soldiers would abandon their posts and just go home to their families, leaving their weapons and uniform behind. Only a handful of still loyal people that have nothing to lose would fight an invasion of North Korea.

[Savior2006]

North Korea is considered to be THE most repressed country, so this isn't a surprise.

[Atheon]

If North Korea had oil...

[baddogma]

This is news? They have been cannibalizing each other for at least ten years. IF America were as concerned about humanity as we act like we do, we would have been in there decades ago.

[_Xenu_]

But is it profitable enough?

Unfortunately, no, but this is the rare war I could see many US citizens supporting on purely humanitarian grounds. It still won't happen, but many people would support it if it did. North Korea is extremely antithetical to American ideals and we despise it.

[Solitary]

Unidentified source, and I'm suppose to believe it isn't propaganda with no evidence to support it. Solitary

[leo]

This shit is very disgusting.

[Shiranu]

Unidentified source, and I'm suppose to believe it isn't propaganda with no evidence to support it. Solitary

That was the first thing that came to my mind too.

[aileron]

They have been cannibalizing each other for at least ten years. IF America were as concerned about humanity as we act like we do, we would have been in there decades ago.

We were in there decades ago.  The Chinese government had its own visions of humanity.

[Johan]

Men, talk to me when there's an article on this which contains the phrase 'confirmed by identified source'.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Whenever I read the bits about execution for possessing bibles it clicks in my bullshit radar. I used to read epochtimes till I realized what a religious tool is it is. I have no idea if this story is true or not, but executions over bibles makes it automatically suspect in my mind.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

It is very possible Nk has and does regularly execute people, but then again so does Texas. Shall we invade Texas as well? :-k