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Executed Making International Calls - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 28th Nov, 2007 - 7:52am
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A North Korean factory chief accused of making international phone calls was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before 150,000 spectators, a South Korean aid group reported.
Executed For Making International Calls
You cannot joke around in North Korea at all, imagine someone being executed for making international calls, this is absolutely insane. Most of us should be grateful where we live, it may not be perfect but we have some sort of freedom!
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| Public executions had declined since 2000 amid international criticism but have been increasing, targeting officials accused of drug trafficking, embezzlement and other crimes, the Good Friends aid agency said in a report on the North's human rights. In October, the North executed the head of a factory in South Pyongan province for making international calls on 13 phones he installed in a factory basement, the aid group said. He was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before a crowd of 150,000. Six people were crushed to death and 34 others injured in an apparent stampede as they left the stadium, the aid group said. Most North Koreans are banned from communicating with the outside world, part of the regime's authoritarian policies seeking to prevent any challenge to the iron-fisted rule of Kim Jong Il. The North in recent months has carried out four similar public executions by firing squad against regional officials and heads of factories, the aid group said. |
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That is pretty interesting, as N.Korea has been "experimenting" with some "limited" capitalism in business. Apparently, the words limited and experiementing are pretty narrow in scope and it seems that the government is dictating the guidelines not with words but bullets. I would not want to be anyone working in this experimentation area with such obvious results if you fall out of line even though the lines are extremely blurry for "limited capitalism".
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