North Korea Publicly Execute Folk for watching South Korean TV

If it was in place here for people who watch some reality TV shows you might take a different perspective....

At least they weren't killed by mortar rounds like an officer was recently. story

My heart goes out to people living in NK though, you can't imagine how messed up it is and nobody can do anything about it (well they can but they won't)

This is a great idea, maybe we can execute people for reading the Indo or the Daily Mail?

No oil or natural resource worthwhile at their disposal will mean this will continue for some time yet.

There's a Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 Thursday night about the goings-on in North Korea if anyone is interested.

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And that's Sky News saying that. A pinch of salt is needed with any news coming from North Korea.. nevermind unconfirmed, anonymous accounts. Propaganda exists north and south of the DMZ.

It's a very closed country, and solid information is hard to come by, but it's clear the situation is very dire

The UN human rights council is having an on-going inquiry and the stuff that is coming out is absolutely horrific

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10413950/UN-inquiry-chief-reduced-to-tears-by-North-Korea-brutality.html

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In 100 years, kids will be studying NK as we did the Nazi's and asking how the fcuk everyone stood by and watched.

with ww2 concentration camps the allies thought that they couldn't exist the way they were told, they thought nobody could be that evil. it was only the discovery of them during the liberations that they realised just how messed up someone can be.

here is different. yes we know about it but there isn't much that can be done right now due to politics.

Realistically the only countries that have the ability to change anything are Russia, The USA and China. The three know that it would be a horrible war with the use of nuclear weapons a possibility and the use of biological and chemical weapons a certainty.

The US can't do anything as Russia and China are technically allies of NK. the last thing either country wants is more US troops in the area, China have other interests in the area and most of those interests are places the US has promised to protect so if they had more bases in the area it would be a major blow. Russia just don't want to agree with the US on anything and probably gets enough money from NK weapons to keep them happy.

And likewise China and Russia are looking at the sheer scale of the logistics of it. after a liberation you are looking at a country with terrible infrastructure, little or no resources and 24 million people that suddenly need to be fed and cared for. What country in the world could honestly support such an influx of aid requests. So as long as they don't do anything crazy stupid (launch at the US or Japan) then China don't really care.

Its old politics and country ties in the 21st centuary