North Korea executes 80 people for watching S. Korean TV
 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4252610.html

All that for some reruns of Mork & Mindy.

They have citizens that born in prison camps that are serving time for things their grandparents did, so this no is surprise, that is one fucked up country.

321...cue DWB to come in bitching about how futile it is to rail against the injustices of the world because I am typing on a keyboard made with slave labor...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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Mindy was insanely hot.

I would watch her make ice cubes.

Pretty clean :)

I love it when people try to compare the US to "Nazi German". LOL. This is a great example of what a government can do...

My dreams of opening a Blockbuster video store in one of their special economic zones takes another blow.

How did they know all that info for real?

I hope the little butterball running that country catches a hot one sooner than later

Well, some of us see the writing on the wall and are wanting to change the direction the country is headed.

Of course, we are not there yet and it would be nice if 100 years from now people don't say, "If only they had done something back in 2013!"

How do you get caught watching something on TV? Call me crazy, but if I knew I could be killed for watching a TV channel, and I still had to watch it, I would do so very privately.

The fuck are you rambling on about?

Good!

South Korean TV fucking sucks.

That'll teach 'em; watch better shit!

Disclaimer : Only an idiot believes these rumors that come out every few months.

who gives a flying fuck?

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Nice propaganda piece... :1orglaugh

Amazed that so many of you are so quick to believe reports of rumors. :helpme

At least a few people reading the article on the HuffPo were skeptical:

Curious why this isn't reported in the N. Korean press if it was a "public" execution, supposedly carried out for the purpose of intimidating people, since if the Commies kept the executions a secret it wouldn't be very useful as a deterrent to others. :upsidedow

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ADG

What North Korean press?..

They wouldn't put this on KCNA that's for sure.....

They have to watch it on VHS. So they shut down the power to the whole building. Locking the tape inside, then they can check out what they were watching.

Seems crazy, im in korea right now, and just asked my wife. Did North Korea do this?
She just shrugged and said, yeah probably. :(

Someone borrow Dennis Rodman some DVDs for his next visit

I've always thought the OP was an idiot. Thanks for confirming it.:thumbsup:thumbsup

propaganda or not no one is against the north korean people. they are victims of their government and there a pile of human rights violations happening every year.

Spreading untrue rumors about a government will help prevent human rights abuse? :upsidedow

Let's work on real documented abuse. At home might be a good place to start:

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ADG

key statement from news story: If confirmed

ADG you are usually pretty spot on - but "North Korean Press"??? you are serious?

You haven't heard of the N. Korean executions for just about anything before? How do you think they could keep such a large population enslaved for so long...

Pointing out anti-North Korean propaganda does not make one pro-North Korea. :2 cents:

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I was a History major in college with a focus on East Asia studies, I lived in Asia for over a decade altogether, and I am generally interested in the region (and the world), so I think it's safe to say that I know some of what you are speaking about.

BTW, I've even been to South Korea, but not North Korea; I wasn't allowed to travel to North Korea, or any communist countries due to my military duties and security clearance (I spent 4 years of my Navy career on a staff command in Japan, and then a few years chasing mostly Russian submarines in patrol aircraft).

I think that I am fairly passionate when it comes to human rights, so yes I would like to see some positive change in the North Korean government. Since I am more affected by and better informed about human rights problems in this country, I focus most of my energy there. The more human rights we have in the USA, the better we can help other countries achieve improvements in their human rights.

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ADG

History major, and you ended selling porn... I know that story.

If they were watching the Kardashians, then they deserved it. If that was the only thing they could watch, then it was a mercy killing

Pam Dawber. I would bang her while reciting Jonathon Winters' baby jokes.

Yeah, and I sold about a hundred million dollars worth of computers and networking equipment before that. (really)

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I earned a teaching credential but have never formally taught or wrote books (what I originally intended to do). Had I known then what I know now, I would have been a Film major. :winkwink:

Still received a kickass humanities-based education, and learned even more about life/myself outside of the classroom during those years, so overall, no major regrets (except for the Film school thing).

FYI, I really did stumble into the adult industry (back in 2000), and I've been stumbling ever since... :helpme

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ADG

north korea on the radar ->
'white house down' released where the terrorists were asian, after the cold war where the bad guys were always russian, and later always arabs ->
this news report and many to follow ->
western civilization brainwashing complete that north koreans are evil.

Mission accomplished!

North Korea installs the TVs in your house and they make it so it will show if you tamper with it, the government routinely does "TV Checks" to verify you are not watching anything else.

There is lots of information about the policies of North Korea from North Koreans that have managed to get away and there are pages upon pages worth of North Koreans reporting living conditions and the torture performed in the labor camps.

Let's try applying this logic to the USA...

Watching "bad" TV channels like Faux News perhaps?

Hardly a capitol offense. Flogging maybe, but not a capitol offense.

I'd have been cool with us executing the top 800 shysters that profited from the 2007-2008 financial collapse however.

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I mean, seriously.
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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh bullshit!

in a fucked up world. :2 cents:

They have "inspectors" in their own communities who go into your house and check the frequencies on the televisions. If it's been rigged to watch anything but NK frequencies, you're fucked.

if this is true, then that is really fucked up....

...and I keep wondering why the world is tolerating this genocide and basic human laws violations? Well, I know why but it's still hard to accept it.