Posted on 04/02/2014 12:46:01 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea 'to Execute 200 Jang Song-taek Loyalists'
North Korea is poised to execute 200 high-ranking officials loyal to ousted eminence grise Jang Song-taek, a source said Tuesday. Some 1,000 members of their families could be sent to concentration camps under the North's barbaric system of guilt by association.
The source said the State Security Department has conducted a sweep to ferret out Jang's supporters after his execution in December last year and identified 200 core supporters and another 1,000 followers.
The department has authorization from the North's highest court to hold closed-door trials to deliver death sentences, the source added. This apparently aims to make it look as if proper procedure, to the extent that it exists at all, has been followed.
The families of those who have been sentenced to death are likely to be sent to concentration camps without trial.
The source said, "Among those who have been sentenced to death are 200 officials in the Workers Party, the government and military who received orders directly from Jang Song-taek. The executions will take place at the shooting range at Kang Kon Military Academy under the eyes of high-ranking party, government and military officials."
The public executions are designed to set an example to waverers what will happen to them if they fail to show blind obedience to Kim Jong-un, who marks his third year in power this year.
englishnews@chosun.com / Apr. 02, 2014 11:18 KST
Another show time NK execution? Lets see, they already used death by mortar, maybe death by rocket into space? Ooops, I may have given Kim an idea? I wonder when he will get around to knocking off his brother?
Yep, like Stalin killing Trotsky. A little hard to get too worked up about it.
You would think the leader of the free world would shed light on this and do all he could to save these dissidents and their families. Natan Sharansky, Soviet Dissident, wrote a great book that GWB really took to heart and used after 911. He and Reagan were on the same page when it comes to defending freedom. Obama doesn’t even know who Sharansky is let alone stand up for dissidents who risk everything to oppose the Dictator. Obama is so pathetic the world laughs at everything he says. He longs to be the Dictator of America and sends the IRS after Dissidents. Dinesh DeSouza will tell you.
Yes, every knee must bow in this religion...I was just reading this morning about North Korea’s religion (they prefer the term “ideology”)—Juche—which means “self-reliance.”
Every week 100 percent of the North Korean population has to gather together, village by village, in special buildings for worshipful services called self-criticism meetings. Juche even has a trinity—Kim Il Sung, his wife, and his son Kim Jong Il—and veneration for the latter has not waned in the wake of his death and the ascension to power of his son Kim Jong Un.
In the weekly self-criticism meetings, North Koreans sing from a hymnal containing 600 songs of praise glofifying Kim II Sun and Kim John Il.
North Koreans pray by looking up reverently at the pictures of the Kim dynasty leaders that have to be hung on the best wall of every home. The original Kim, Kim Il Sung, died in 1994, but North Koreans continue to call him the country’s president and regard him as immortal, the god of North Korea.
Behind all that of course, is the god of this world whom you names. His time is short.
You are right.
Read what FDR and the top leaders of the United States and Britain knew or strongly suspected about the Nazi death camps by 1944 and even by 1943. It is not good.
I get the point that winning World War II was the most important priority and was the best way to save Jewish lives worldwide. But by the time deportations began of Hungarian Jews late in World War II, we might have been able to do something to affect the outcome.
History will not look kindly on the West for mouthing platitudes about human rights while ignoring crystal clear evidence of what is happening in North Korea. The general public of the West has more access to information today about North Korea than all but the most senior leaders of the Allies had about Nazi death camps during World War II.
I am very much aware that North Korea is not an easy problem to fix. If it were easy it would have been done long ago. However, there are more things which could be done than are being done.
Not sure I see the need for the word “almost” in that sentence.
But I fully agree with you about East Asian culture not being a culture that is based on being obvious.
I don't think most Westerners have any comprehension of what we're dealing with in North Korea. It is not just the Kim family; it is a whole culture which reflects the outlook not only of North Korea but also of most of Asia until very recent times.
The “Hermit Kingdom” culture of pre-Christian Korea, however, was even worse than what prevailed in China or most of the rest of Asia. Reading stories from the 1700s and 1800s about persecution of early Christian converts in Korea looks like reading something out of Imperial Rome or modern North Korea. Except for Japan under the shoguns, it is hard to find anyplace in Asia which was more hostile toward foreign influences than pre-1800s Korea.
The similarities of deification of the ruler are more than accidental. They reflect a fundamentally non-Christian system of ethics developed by a culture which is thousands of years old and in which Satan has had unchallenged rulership until the last few centuries.
We can't expect Satan to give up easily.
The executions, brutal in nature, will be videotaped and then replayed in Public Security Bureau offices around the country to scare the deeply, mentally scarred and emotionally imprisoned population to stay in line. Like Stalin and Hitler had executions by piano wire filmed and likewise distributed to his elite corps with the implicit message that “this awaits you for any sign of disloyalty.” The good thing is that if the regime IS ever toppled, and the tapes are not destroyed, they will be excellent paper trails for this dude being brought up for genocide or mass murder crimes before a tribunal. We can dream can’t we?
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