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    North Korea: Four refugees deported by China publicly executed

    North Korea has publicly executed four refugees who were repatriated by China and sent 40 others to its notorious prison camps, a South Korean activist said.

    China has repatriated 44 fugitives from its communist neighbor in recent months, said Kim Heung-Kwang, who heads NK Intellectuals Solidarity, a Seoul-based defectors’ group.

    Four of them were executed and 40 sent to camps for political prisoners, he told a seminar.

    South Korean rights groups say there are six political prison camps in the North holding around 200,000 detainees.

    Kim said he had obtained his information from a source inside the North, but gave no details.

    The South’s unification ministry, which is in charge of cross-border affairs, declined to comment.

    Tens of thousands of North Koreans looking to escape hunger or repression in their communist homeland have fled in recent years. Virtually all cross the border to China, which repatriates those fugitives it catches.

    Beijing says they are economic migrants rather than refugees, a policy criticized by international rights groups.

    The refugees often travel on from China to southeast Asian countries, hoping to fly from there to South Korea. Last week 19 refugees were arrested in Thailand on charges of illegal entry.

    (Source: Agence France-Presse)
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    Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend executed by firing squad

    Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend has been executed by firing squad along with a dozen fellow North Korean musicians charged with violating laws against pornography, according to reports in a respected South Korean newspaper.

    The Chosun Ilbo said performers from a well-known orchestra and light music ensemble were arrested on 17 August, accused of filming themselves having sex and then selling copies of the tapes.

    While this breached North Korean anti-pornography laws, some of the musicians were also found to have Bibles in their possession and all were treated as political dissidents, according to the newspaper’s unnamed source.

    They were executed in public by machine gun fire three days later, reportedly as the rest of the Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Light Music Band were forced to watch.

    In accordance with the country’s rules on guilt by association, their families were then taken away to detention camps, according to the reports.

    Among those killed was said to be singer Hyon Song-wol, who reached an international audience when she won a Hungarian competition in 2005 and released the hit single “A Girl In The Saddle Of A Steed” – often mistranslated as “Excellent Horse-Like Lady”.

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met Ms Hyon a decade ago, and they were reported to have been in a relationship until Kim’s father Kim Jong-il said he disapproved.

    The South Korean reports included images showing the dictator attending a concert given by Ms Hyon and the groups on 8 August in Pyongyang, and there have been rumours that the couple continued their affair after both married other people.

    The paper said Kim's current wife Ri Sol-ju was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before she married him. It said: “Whether she had any hand in the executions is unclear.”

    Quotations from another source, again unnamed, indicated that the executions on 20 August were in keeping with the dictator’s recent activities, and “show that he is fixated on consolidating his leadership”. The source said: “Kim Jong-un has been viciously eliminating anyone who he deems a challenge to his authority.”

    While it is often impossible to verify reports coming out of the closed-off communist state, an authority on North Korean affairs and professor at Tokyo’s Waseda University told the Daily Telegraph there seemed to be “a political reason” behind the killings.

    Toshimitsu Shigemura told the paper: “If these people had only made pornographic videos, then it is simply not believable that their punishment was execution.

    “They could have been made to disappear into the prison system there instead.

    “There is a political reason behind this. Or, as Kim's wife once belonged to the same group, it is possible that these executions are more about Kim's wife,” he said.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-8789322.html
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    North Korea 'publicly executes' 80

    North Korea publicly executed around 80 people earlier this month, many for watching smuggled South Korean TV shows - the 1st known large-scale public executions under leader Kim Jong Un - a report said Monday.

    The South Korean JoongAng Ilbo daily cited a single, unidentified source, but at least one group of North Korean defectors said it had heard rumors that lent credibility to the front-page report.

    The source, said to be "familiar" with the North's internal affairs and recently returned from the country, said the executions were carried out in 7 cities on Nov. 3.

    In the eastern port of Wonsan, authorities gathered 10,000 people in a sports stadium to watch the execution of 8 people by firing squad, the source quoted one eyewitness as saying.

    Most were charged with watching illicit South Korean TV dramas, and some with prostitution.

    Watching unsanctioned foreign films or TV - especially those from the capitalist South - is a serious offense in North Korea.

    Several of the cities, including Wonsan and Pyongsong, in the west, have been designated as special economic zones aimed at attracting foreign investment to boost the North's moribund economy.

    In Wonsan, 8 people were tied to stakes at a local stadium, had their heads covered with white sacks and were shot dead with a machine gun, the source said.

    One defector-run website, North Korea Intellectual Solidarity, said its sources had reported several months ago on plans for a wave of public executions.

    The simultaneous executions held on a weekend in the cities suggest that the central government is ramping up its efforts to stamp out public unrest and capitalistic zeal accompanying its development projects, the report said.

    (Source: The Japan Times)

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    North Korea 'publicly executes 80 people' for watching South Korean films and distributing pornography----Some of those killed were said to have been tied to stakes and shot in front of a crowd of 10,000 people

    80 people have been publicly executed in cities across North Korea for "minor transgressions" including watching South Korean films and distributing pornography, according to reports.

    South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo quotes a source who said the 1st large-scale public executions under ruler Kim Jong-Un happened last Sunday.

    Around 10 people were killed in 7 different cities. During one of the execution sessions, 8 people were tied to stakes in a local stadium and shot with a machine gun in front of 10,000 people - including children.

    The victims of those killings in the city of Wonson, in the country's Kangwon province, were said to have been accused of watching and illegally trafficking South Korean videos, possessing a bible, or being involved in prostitution. Any accomplices or family members of the accused alleged to have been involved in their crimes were sent on to prison camps.

    The executions come 3 months after it was reported Kim Jong-Un's regime had killed 12 well-known North Korean performers, including the despot's ex-lover Hyon Song-wol.

    They are said to have been accused of filming themselves having sex and selling the material.

    (Source: The Daily Mirror)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    North Korea 'publicly executes' 80

    North Korea publicly executed around 80 people earlier this month, many for watching smuggled South Korean TV shows - the 1st known large-scale public executions under leader Kim Jong Un - a report said Monday.
    But you know the Dear Leader or whatever the brainwashed call that fat little punk probably watches pirated copies of every movie and TV show made in South Korea. South Korean crime and martial-arts movies are great. If there really were a Hell it couldn't be any worse than North Korea.

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    Kim Jong-Un's uncle out, two associates executed in North Korea political purge

    NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's uncle, seen as the hardline regime's political regent, has apparently been purged and two associates executed, South Korea's spy agency said, nearly two years after the young supremo came to power.

    The National Intelligence Service (NIS) told a parliamentary committee that it believed Jang Song-Thaek had been removed from all posts, including vice chairman of the communist country's top military body, the National Defence Commission.

    If confirmed, Jang's ouster would mark the most significant purge at the top of the North Korean leadership since Kim Jong-Un succeeded his late father Kim Jong-Il in December 2011.

    According to the NIS briefing, Jang was "recently ousted from his position and two of his close confidantes - Ri Yong-Ha and Jang Soo-Kil - were publicly executed in mid-November", lawmaker Jung Cheong-Rae told reporters.

    North Korean military personnel had been notified of the executions, Mr Jung said, adding that Jang, 67, had since "disappeared".

    The husband of Kim Jong-Il's powerful sister, Kim Kyong-Hui, Jang was seen as instrumental in cementing Kim Jong-Un's hold on power in the tricky transition period after his father's death.

    He was often referred to as the unofficial number two in the hierarchy and the real power behind the throne of Kim, who is aged around 30.

    http://www.news.com.au/world/kim-jon...-1226774604572

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    Kim Jong Un's uncle executed as traitor

    An uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been executed, the Korean Central News Agency reported early Friday. The execution comes just days after Jang Son Thaek was removed from his military post.

    http://www.wyff4.com/news/national/u...#ixzz2nJJTIjRz
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    According to other reports, the aunt was the one who ratted him out and sought his removal from power. He was alleged to be a womanizer. Hell hath no fury...

    What's interesting is that the KCNA English-language site has had no mention of any of the drama surrounding the late Mr. Jang.

    Do you have to wipe everybody out, Jong-Un? Only my enemies.

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    Kim Jong-un's brother led arrest of Jang Sung-taek: source

    Jang Sung-taek, the uncle-in-law of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was arrested by Kim Jong-un's second eldest brother Kim Jong-chul, reports Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po, citing the chairman for Seoul's North Korea Strategy Information Service Center Lee Yun-keol.

    The South Korean intelligence agency first reported that Jang, who was vice chairman of the country's National Defense Commission, had been removed from his post on Dec. 3 and he has not been seen in public following the execution of two of his associates, Lee Yong-ha and Jang Soo-kee, in November.

    Lee Yun-keol claims that Kim Jong-chul personally lead the arrest against Jang, who was once second only to the supreme leader. "In fact, even Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae would not dare to carry out the arrest. Kim Jong-un's own second oldest brother Kim Jong-chul ordered the guards to complete the arrest in the end," he said.

    Kim Jong-un, in a move to consolidate his power following the death of his father Kim Jong-il two years ago, asked his brother to carry out the arrests of those who are against him, the paper said.

    According to the North Korean state news agency KCNA, Jang was publicly expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on Dec. 8 for "committing anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts, harboring politically-motivated ambitions, weakening the party's guidance over judicial, prosecution and people's security bodies, and obstructing the nation's economic affairs, as well as having a capitalist way of living, including illicit affairs with women."

    Our sister paper Want Daily also reported that Jang had been planning to groom Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un's eldest brother, as a replacement for the young leader. Observers now believe Kim Jong-nam may become the next target of the purge.

    http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-s...1&MainCatID=11


    Kim Jong-un's Less Responsible, Disney-Obsessed Older Brother

    North Korea seems very keen of late to let everyone know that it is prepared to start a global thermonuclear war. The United States is taking the threat seriously, deploying antiballistic missile defenses along the Pacific Coast, and South Korea is threatening a “strong response in initial combat without any political considerations.” There is some question as to whether or not North Korea is technically capable of actually waging such a war, and it seems that nobody has told Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s Supreme Leader, my new favorite joke:

    Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
    A. To escape North Korea’s long-range missiles.

    In 2001, it didn’t seem that Kim Jong-un’s fingerprints might one day adorn the red button. In those heady days, a different Kim was in line for the throne: Kim Jong-nam (above right), the eldest son of Kim Jong-il. Things went bad for Kim Jong-nam when he was detained at Narita International Airport in Tokyo. The charge: traveling with a fraudulent passport. Specifically, he attempted to pass himself off as a Dominican named Pang Xiong (which translates as “Fat Bear” in Chinese). Japanese authorities, who know a fake Dominican when they see one, deported the heir apparent of North Korea to China.

    Kim Jong-nam and his immediate family were attempting to visit Tokyo Disneyland.

    All of this was pretty embarrassing for Kim Jong-il, the Shining Star of Paektu Mountain, who thus canceled his own planned Chinese excursion. Kim Jong-nam quickly fell out of favor with his father, and was replaced by Kim Jong-un in the line of succession.

    Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong-un are half-brothers. The older brother was born to Song Hye-rim, mistress of Kim Jong-il. The younger of the two was born to Ko Young-hee, a Pyongyang opera star. There is a middle brother—Kim Jong-chol—but Dear Leader considered him too feminine to lead a manly state like North Korea.

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/49949...-older-brother


    What Now for Kim Jong-un's Aunt?

    The fate of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's aunt Kim Kyong-hui is unclear after the ouster of her powerful husband Jang Song-taek.

    Kim Kyong-hui's whereabouts are unknown, but experts believe she is relatively safe due to the reverence in which the regime holds the direct descendants of nation founder Kim Il-sung, who are piously referred to as the "Baekdu bloodline," after Kim senior's alleged birthplace.

    Her marriage to Jang has also been on the rocks for some time and she has kept her political distance.

    "In all probability, Kim Kyong-hui only reluctantly maintained ties with Jang while former leader Kim Jong-il was alive," Prof. Kim Keun-sik of Kyungnam University said. "It appears they broke up after his death, so there's no reason to believe their fates remain intimately linked. Kim Kyong-hui will probably maintain her status since she is the only person in the upper echelons besides Kim Jong-un to be descended from Kim Il-sung."

    Some experts believe Kim Kyong-hui may even have taken the lead in Jang's ouster.

    "It seems likely that Kim Jong-un joined hands with Kim Kyong-hui and military Politburo chief Choe Ryong-hae to oust Jang," speculates Chung Young-tae of the Korea Institute for National Unification. "In that case she will probably have secured her position."

    http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...121001717.html

    As a huge fan of South Korean gangster movies, watching this bloody saga unfold is a real treat. You ain't seen nothin' yet, folks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimKay View Post
    According to other reports, the aunt was the one who ratted him out and sought his removal from power. He was alleged to be a womanizer. Hell hath no fury...

    What's interesting is that the KCNA English-language site has had no mention of any of the drama surrounding the late Mr. Jang.

    Do you have to wipe everybody out, Jong-Un? Only my enemies.
    They executed his 2 buddies immediately, but they took the uncle over a week ago. I wonder if they tortured him for information.

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    Where have you been (besides that party? )? There is no torture anymore, only "enhanced interrogation." Self-criticism is part and parcel of Stalinist practice, and the NORKs are die-hard Stalinists. During Stalin's purges in the 1930s, thousands of innocent people self-criticized* (you unenlightened types would say "confessed") behaviors or intentions harmful to the proletariat and the Party. They were "convinced" that such confessions self-criticisms were essential to purify the Party etc etc. In Jang's case, however, it probably ran along the lines of "We'll disconnect the cattle prods as soon as you sign this confession self-critical document."

    *The successful fulfilment of the tasks facing the Party is indissolubly linked with the unfolding of Bolshevik criticism and self-criticism, which constitute the basic conditions for the development of our Party. Comrade Stalin teaches that without self-criticism we cannot advance, that we need self-criticism as we need air and water, that the strength of Bolshevism consists precisely in the fact that it is not afraid of criticism and that from criticism of its own shortcomings it draws the energy for further advance. The slogan of self-criticism, Comrade Stalin says, “lies at the very foundation of the Bolshevik Party. It lies at the foundation of the system of the dictatorship of the proletariat. If our country is the country of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship is led by one party, the Communist Party, which does not and cannot share power with other parties, is it not obvious that we ourselves must reveal and correct our mistakes, if we want to advance? . . .”

    -- G. M. Malenkov, "Comrade Stalin—Leader of Progressive Mankind"

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