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| Norks Execute Two Over S. Korean Propaganda | |
| 2011-01-24 | |
| Some 500 people in North Korea attended a public execution of a man and a woman caught reading South Korean propaganda, an activist claimed Sunday citing sources in the North. Choi Sung-yong, the head of Family Assembly Abducted to North Korea said security services rounded up some 500 people including 50 family members of South Korean prisoners of war and abduction victims and made them watch the execution. The victims were a 45-year-old woman accused of reading a South Korean propaganda leaflet and failing to notify authorities and a high-ranking regional military officer charged with pocketing the dollar bills that were sent along with the leaflets. Choi said the families of the two were sent to a camp for political prisoners in South Pyongan Province.
"We have information from a source that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was going to visit Sariwon in North Hwanghae Province soon, and it looks like authorities there held a public execution to warn the people there off any signs of dissent," Choi said. "It seems North Korea is stepping up monitoring and crackdowns on people who read or listen to anti-communist propaganda to ensure the hereditary transfer of power" from Kim to his son Jong-un. North Korean defectors said anyone who picks up an anti-communist leaflet must notify the authorities on pain of severe punishment. They said North Koreans are taught from a young age that eating South Korean-made cookies causes gut rot while picking up pens or lighters made in the South will make the hands decay. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > US SURPRISED AT HIGH LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION [2nd Generation = P2 Centrifuge tech]IN NORTH KOREA'S URANIUM PLANT [Yongbyon]. NucPert SIEGFRIED HECKER. HECKER states in Artic that NORTH KOREA ALREADY HAS [several = anumber of] NUCLEAR WEAPONS, hence in Pyongyang's view the US-WEST/UNIAEA claim that the North can produce enough HEU Nucmats at Yongbyon to produce one Uranium Bomb per annum is IRRELEVANT = OBSOLETE. IIUC, HECKER > is indirectly arguing that NORTH KOREA is a DE FACTO NUCLEAR = NUCWEAPONS STATE that chooses to prioritize Militarized NucWeaps manufac over NucEnergy for Consumer,Industrial Purposes; + NORTH KOREA AS A "SOVEREIGN" WORLD STATE IS UNILATERALLY HOLDING ITSELF BACK AS PER PRODUC MORE URANIUM-OR-BETTER NUCBOMBS. Read, DPRK FEAR OF CHINA'S MILITARY REACTION. * SAME > RESHUFFLE OF MILITARY POWER LAYOUT IN NORTH EAST ASIA. Regional Balance-of-Power is a'changin for everyone. ARTIC = Of all the Regional States in NEAsia + their various inter-relationships, RUSSIA'S MILITARY POWER + INFLUENCE IS VIEWED AS THE ONLY ONE TO BE IN STEADY DECLINE??? * SAME > NORTHEAST INDIANS WANT TO BE CHINESE!? ARTIC = claims that Ethnic groups in NE India histor feel more ethnic/socio-culturally more related = kindred to China than to India, + WOULD HAVE MUCH BETTER CIVIL, PROPERTY RIGHTS + QUALITY-OF-LIFE UNDER CHIN THAN UNDER INDIA??? OTHER - ditto MYANMAR[Burma], BANGLADESH, + TIBET??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-24 23:40 |
| #4 For the same reason they give the Paleostinians money, barely prosecute wars so they go on forever, and allow terrorists carry out their lives and convert more to terrorism in their midst while they watch. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-24 23:25 |
| #3 OS you have a point there, this regime would fall much quicker than Iraq and more complete. You have to wonder why the "civilized" world allows them to continue. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-01-24 19:16 |
| #2 Explain to me again, State Department, why we are sending aid to this vile government instead of isolating it and toppling it? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-01-24 11:20 |
| #1 Compare wid PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > ANALYSTS REVEAL "REAL" 2009 NORTH KOREAN DEFENCE BUDGET. Its US$9.0Bilyuhn, not US$570.0Milyuhn as proclaimed by Pyongyang. As compared to the DPRK's estimated = official GDP, IFF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY NORTH KOREA IS STARVING + OTHER, WONDER NO MORE! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-24 01:10 |