Video captures North Korean 'executions'

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Independent
By David McNeill in Tokyo
29 March 2005


A Japanese NGO has released a video showing what it says are summary trials and public executions of defectors in North Korea.

Filmed with a concealed camera, one scene shows a man being shot by a firing squad in front of 1,000 people in what the NGO, Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, says is the northern city of Yuson, near the Chinese border.

The executed man, identified as Han Bok-Nam, is accused in the video of being an "atrocity in human skin" who had "lured sweet women with lying words" and "sold them to human traffickers abroad" - a cover charge for aiding defectors, the NGO says. "Helping anyone escape from that country is classed as criminal activity and is termed human trafficking or abduction," Life Funds says.

In a second scene, two men identified as Choi Jae-kon and Park Myong-kil are executed after being accused of trying to defect. "This evidence proves what we have been saying for some time and what has been common testimony from defectors coming out of North Korea," Hiroshi Kato, Life Funds' general secretary, said. "The Pyongyang government is killing people who are caught and brought back. We believe these sort of public executions take place every week."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=624463

[robcon]

1. The whole country of North Korea is a gulag.

n/t

[LeighAnn]

2. Saddam Hussein is a Mad-Man!!! Saddam has Weapons of

Mass Destruction!!!! Iraqis need the right to a free democracy!!!

Quit changing the subject!

[Squatch]

3. It's tragic how the US turns a blind eye to places where the real problems

are.

NKPR, Rwanda, Sudan.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Add the US to that list if you don't mind....

...and IMHO, we tend to believe far to much what the US captive mainstream media is directed to publish.

[NNN0LHI]

5. The USA should videotape all of its executions too

They should be shown on prime time TV. Let Americans see what is really going on in their name.

Don

[UpInArms]

6. perhaps there should be a "live feed" channel

that shows what is happening in our prison system (Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, etc)

[NNN0LHI]

7. Excellent idea n/t