Thou shalt not communicate
06/18/2007 @ 12:00 am
Reports coming out of North Korea say that there has been an increase in public executions there of citizens guilty of using cell phones and circulating outside information.
The phenomenon of executions of those who “circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise,” the [South Korean] government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification think tank said in a white paper on the North’s human rights conditions. No exact figures were given.
In North Korea, communicating with the outside world is a crime, but cell phones are sometimes smuggled into the country by Chinese visitors.
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I wish Kim Jongil was dead
June 18th, 2007 at 1:11 am“I wish Kim Jongil was dead”
For his (equally evil) son to take the lead?
And it looks like most of the North Koreans are very proud of their country.
Actually, tourists who visited North Korea often report that it’s a very exotic (maybe the most exotic) place to visit in the whole world.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:28 am“And it looks like most of the North Koreans are very proud of their country.”
I somehow doubt that reliable polling can be conducted in North Korea.
“Actually, tourists who visited North Korea often report that it’s a very exotic (maybe the most exotic) place to visit in the whole world.”
No doubt the country is exotic, in the sense that there are few such hermetically-sealed wretched environments for human beings on the face of the planet with which it can be compared.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:24 amvittel, the propaganda network is so tough in North Korea that they may well do. But that doesn’t mean they should be given all the facts.
North Korea has to be one of the most horrible places to have to live in my opinion.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am[...] looks like North Korea is not the only place taking tough steps against cellphone users as police in Japan have arrested a man on suspicion of [...]
June 18th, 2007 at 8:00 am“Exotic?” How charming. Forget eco-tourism. Let’s go for genocide tourism. It’s all entertainment.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:30 amThe point is that when propaganda is well mastered enough to make starving people proud of their country, there is nothing you can do from the exterior to “save them from their ignorance”. And it’s even more difficut from the interior, of course.
But you know how the saying goes: ignorance is bliss
I seriously believe that there are also happy people living in NK, even among the poor.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:41 pmI stand corrected
. I wish for Kim Jongil, his entire power structure, and any DPRKphiles to die.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:32 pm