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Kim Jong-Un brutally shoots a orchestra conductor 90 times in front of every artist in Pyongyang (Original Post) YoshidaYui May 2021 OP
snuff film? nt msongs May 2021 #1
Definitely not. Nictuku May 2021 #6
What is the point of shooting an orchestra conductor? TigressDem May 2021 #2
It makes perfect sense. (sarc) Triloon May 2021 #3
Rewind to watch entire video Nictuku May 2021 #4
Kim Jong Was Just Joking Around Goonch May 2021 #5
Interesting photo Nictuku May 2021 #7
What a goofy looking turd blossom BunnyMcGee May 2021 #10
;-{) Goonch May 2021 #8
My hope for Dear Leader is... BunnyMcGee May 2021 #9
I'll rasie your 10 to life in Hell with no parole. TigressDem May 2021 #12
Because the conductor did not think a performance was all that good..... TigressDem May 2021 #11

Nictuku

(3,888 posts)
6. Definitely not.
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:20 PM
May 2021

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)
2. What is the point of shooting an orchestra conductor?
Fri May 28, 2021, 05:54 PM
May 2021

Music is outlawed there?


Kim Jon-Un has lost his mind?

Triloon

(506 posts)
3. It makes perfect sense. (sarc)
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:12 PM
May 2021

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)
4. Rewind to watch entire video
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:18 PM
May 2021

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?

Nictuku

(3,888 posts)
7. Interesting photo
Fri May 28, 2021, 06:22 PM
May 2021

I wonder what those books are that the soldiers all have. Are they getting his autograph?

BunnyMcGee

(475 posts)
9. My hope for Dear Leader is...
Fri May 28, 2021, 08:17 PM
May 2021

to receive 10 times the savagery in return.

Yes I can hear the rebuttals, but "oh well"

TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
12. I'll rasie your 10 to life in Hell with no parole.
Mon May 31, 2021, 11:52 AM
May 2021

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)
11. Because the conductor did not think a performance was all that good.....
Mon May 31, 2021, 11:48 AM
May 2021

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.





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