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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea Punishes Citizens for Lack of Emotion at Leader's Death
2012-01-11
North Korean citizens, who did not take part in the mourning ceremonies for the country's late Leader Kim Jong-il, are facing up to six months in labor camps, Interfax reported January 11.

According to the South Korean media sources, "People's Courts" took place all over the country starting December 29 to condemn those who did not show enough emotion after the death of "the great leader" Kim Jong-il.

The People's Court hearings were reportedly over by January 8. The behavior of those people, who criticized the three-generation principle of ruling the country, was also a matter of discussion during the court meetings.

It was reported earlier that 2012 calendars were fully taken out of stores because the date of death of the late Leader Kim Jong-il was not marked in them.

Kim Jong-il died December 17 of a heart attack in his armored train. The North Korean government, now headed by his son, Suet Face Kim Jong-un, has promised to continue implementing "the great revolutionary leaders' ideas" with the aim of reuniting the Korean Peninsula.
Posted by:tipper

#7  Kim Jong-il died December 17 of a heart attack what is suspected to be acute lead poisoning in his armored train.

FIFY. No thanks necessary, but free drinks gratefully accepted :-)
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2012-01-11 23:25  

#6  ION TOPIX > CHINA, SOUTH KOREA EDGE CLOSER TO FTA.

and

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > FTA WID CHINA [+ ROK] COULD HAVE [major = serious] GEOPOLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS, espec for NE Asia.

ARTIC > Beijing = Rising China may be more conducive to supporting the concept of formal DPRK-ROK integration, + ultimately reunification, iff it had potent econ influence in SOuth Korea vee FTAS.

versus

* DAILY TIMES.PK > SOUTH KOREA THINK-TANK WARNS OF NORTH'S ARMY "ADVENTURISM".

ARTIC > ROK Foreign Ministry Institute > DPRK = IRAN? = Kim Jong-Un may order a THIRD NUCLEAR TEST OR NEW MISSLE LAUNCH LATER IN 2012, OR ELSE EARLY 2013.

Aka as January 2013? when Israel's INSS Analysts believes Iran may formally conduct a NucWeaps test???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-01-11 23:01  

#5  There were similar waves of arrests in Stalin's Russia. At some (political) assemblies, somebody would offer praise of Stalin, and people would clap. Then everyone would join in. They would continue for minutes, then hours, until people would faint. Finally, somebody would take the initiative to stop, breaking the spell. Guess who was arrested the next day.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2012-01-11 20:06  

#4  More likely it is one faction putting down another faction while they have the chance.

Plausible; no sense letting a good crisis go to waste. Or maybe just setting an example for the rest.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-01-11 17:33  

#3  Nobody is that stupid. More likely it is one faction putting down another faction while they have the chance.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2012-01-11 17:09  

#2  If you fed them decently, they would cry you a river.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-01-11 13:05  

#1  I told you that lot looked like they were ordered to,

"Weep like you mean it, But don't break ranks".
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-01-11 11:41  

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