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Related: About this forumKim Jong-Un brutally shoots a orchestra conductor 90 times in front of every artist in Pyongyang
msongs
(70,219 posts)Nictuku
(3,888 posts)There is no actual visual of what happened. Just a young (and quite beautiful) North Korean woman (clearly no longer in North Korea) who wants the world to know what is going on over there. Not a snuff film.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Music is outlawed there?
Kim Jon-Un has lost his mind?
Triloon
(506 posts)The conductor privately criticized dear leader for preferring a shadow play performance to his orchestras performance. This person ratted him out to the authorities, so Kim Jun Un had him executed by being shot 90 times. But he writes beautiful letters.
Nictuku
(3,888 posts)When I clicked on the link, it was midway through, but it is important to view it in its entirety.
Thank you for posting this YoshidaYui. While it is painful to hear about, I think it is important that we try to understand the terrible things going on under this brutal dictator. The video is not visually gruesome, but the content is so important to hear. I applaud the young woman who is presenting this. My heart hurts for the North Korean people. I can't even imagine how it would be to live under such a regime. The only way I can see this ever coming to an end is with another big war, and that in itself is heartbreaking by itself. Those poor artists. How can you be creative even under such circumstances?
Goonch
(3,819 posts)Nictuku
(3,888 posts)I wonder what those books are that the soldiers all have. Are they getting his autograph?
BunnyMcGee
(475 posts)Goonch
(3,819 posts)BunnyMcGee
(475 posts)to receive 10 times the savagery in return.
Yes I can hear the rebuttals, but "oh well"
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)With every one who helped him having to do to him what he had done to others over and over again.
AND he should be buried alive in acid maybe.
Nah, that would be a bit much.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)This was a performance that celebrated the dictator's birthday, as a national holiday no less.
Apparently he was having no negativity on his birthday.
https://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-firing-squad-conductor-1590226
Byline: Journalist Joo Seong-ha, who writes for the Dong-A Ilbo daily paper.
...the story began on February 16, which is Kim's birthday. North Korea celebrates that date as the Day of the Shining Star, and Kim and his wife appeared at the Mansudae Arts Theater in Pyongyang for a night of performances to mark the holiday.
Joo wrote that one of the shows performed that night was called "Shadow Magic," which featured actors doing magic tricks behind screens as if they were literally shadows. Afterward, Kim reportedly praised the production, but a conductor remarked to someone nearby that he didn't think the show was all that good. Later that night, Joo wrote, the conductor was arrested.