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North Korea publicly executes 15 starving refugees fleeing to China in desperate search for foodLast updated at 00:05am on 6th March 2008 North Korea has publicly executed 15 starving people, mostly women, for illegally entering neighbouring China in search of food, an aid group said yesterday. The 13 women and two men were shot on a bridge in the north-eastern town of Onseong as local residents watched. It was the second mass execution to be reported this week. The group of 15 were sentenced to death for illegally crossing the border into China or for helping others to do so, to...

NKorea increases public executions; aid group says 1 man killed before 150,000 spectators By KWANGTAE KIM,Associated Press Writer AP - Tuesday, November 27 SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has resumed frequent public executions, among them a factory chief accused of making international phone calls who was shot at a stadium before thousands of spectators, a South Korean aid group said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Public executions had declined since 2000 amid international criticism but have been increasing, targeting officials accused of drug trafficking, embezzlement and other wrongdoing, the Good Friends aid agency said in a report on the North's human rights....

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian man under investigation for illegal spamming sent more than 2 billion e-mails promoting Viagra in a year, an official said Wednesday. Experts say that's a drop in the ocean compared to the number of spam e-mails sent globally each year, and the system he used probably wasn't very sophisticated. The Australian Communications and Media Authority began investigating the man, whose identity was not immediately released, after receiving a tip-off from authorities in the Netherlands in May last year. Danyel Molenaar, a project manager for the Dutch Independent Regulator of Post and Telecommunications, said the...

The men and women who this week were arrested in association with the child porn sting carried out by the Justice Department should experience true justice. They should be dragged to Times Square in New York City, hands tied behind their backs, and their crimes should be announced to the packed square and an international TV audience. They should be given no more than two minutes to sort out their business with God. And then ... they should go meet Him! They should have their necks stretched, a bullet placed in the back of their heads, or a dozen...

I am convinced God uses trials like the Terri Schiavo case to test men. Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer was tested – and found wanting. He had seven years to consider this case and got it wrong every time. I don't know Greer personally, but I know many people like him. They go to church on Sunday and then between Monday and Friday lead lives with no seeming connection to what they hear preached in the pulpit, what they read in the Bible, what they claim to believe of the Christian faith. This may be the biggest single...

N. Korea: Public Execution Video Now Available Click Here for Viewing Summary 0:00 brief intro by anchors first video shot 0:50: video starts 3:25: verdict read 4:50: execution proceeds second video shot - same general content a narrator describes the scene in hushed voice comments by anchors brief interview with a man who was involved in the operation. more background information identifying landmarks using a known photo of the place defectors identify landmarks. more analysis of scene for authenticating the location more comments and interviews ...... a female N. Korean defector broke down, seeing the execution video. near the end,...

N. Korea: First-ever Video of Public Execution Smuggled Out time: 03/01/05(two prisoners), 03/02/05(one prisoner) location: Obong-ri and Yuson Worker's District, Hoiryong City, N. Hamkyong Province charge: Helping people with escaping N. Korea brief description: In front of thousands of people, including children, public trials were conducted and the execution were carried out. Shows prisoners falling down after being shot. More description of video: 11 prisoners are led out in front of large crowd. Public trials follow. After prisoners were sentenced, a voice says, "Carry it out, immediately!" Each prisoner is tied to a pole. firing squad(police/security personnel) is 10-15 meter...