North Korea to execute 200 officials and send their families to camps

[Siberia]

This is just :O

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.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/04/02/2014040201750.html

Fascism is back?

 

[Siberia]

This news is almost everywhere on Russian largest media:

Lenta.ru: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/04/02/kazni/;
Gazeta.ru: http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2014/04/02/n_6054681.shtml;
NTV: http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/881399/;
Interfax: http://www.interfax.ru/world/368896;
and many others,

but can't find anything in English though. Disinformation/propaganda?
If so, sorry for the noise.

 

[Laura]

My question is why aren't the "arbiters and exporters of democracy" taking firm, decisive action about this horror instead of all the BS nonsense they are spewing about truly democratic processes in Crimea and Russia? I mean, Ukraine really is only a breath or two away from being a clone of North Korea here.

 

[Siberia]

My question is why aren't the "arbiters and exporters of democracy" taking firm, decisive action about this horror instead of all the BS nonsense they are spewing about truly democratic processes in Crimea and Russia? I mean, Ukraine really is only a breath or two away from being a clone of North Korea here.

Thank you very much for your comment, Laura. This is exactly what I thought when I read this news.

Repressions are an extremely sensitive subject for all post-Soviet countries, this is why I guess many post-Soviet media published this news. One of my family members also suffered Stalin's repressions (a child of political prisoner), this is why I went so emotional about this news. I couldn't sleep last night thinking about these poor innocent families :(.

Maybe, the C's were addressing repressions (among other things) when they said at the latest session:

A: Indeed, there are many in Russia who learned in a school of hard reality difficult for Westerners to imagine.

And it was only after I managed to cope with my feelings, when I realized that it could be a propaganda of South Korea against North Korea. But this can also be true, because the person who executed his own uncle recently is capable of whatever, I think. The problem is that we cannot find this out, unfortunately.

Anyway, today the news also appeared on:

New York Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/north-korea-execute-200-supporters-jang-song-thaek-article-1.1744668

and

International Business Times UK: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea-kim-jong-un-orders-mass-purge-uncles-allies-1443305

 

[Yozilla]

I dunno if this was mentioned here, but it seems that some engineers were executed in North Korea due to 23-store building collapse that claimed hundreds of lives last week:

High-ranking party officials, police and intelligence analysts were among the 500 people killed in the incident in Pyongyang that was described as “serious” by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

_http://www.informationng.com/2014/05/north-korean-officials-executed-by-firing-squad-following-23-storey-building-collapse.html