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This is not surprising, but it still is sad, executing people who commited nohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21980026/ crimes.

This is not surprising, but it still is sad, executing people who commited nohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21980026/ crimes.

What do you mean 'no crimes', crime is defined by the state who makes the laws, the DPRK decides what is crime and punishes it accordingly whether you agree with it or not.

They do it in China too.

I dont mind public executions. IMO, theyre no better or worse than private executions.
I'm more upset about the idea of North Korea's concentration camps. Killing one guy for offending the State happens all over the world. Putting his entire family in a prison camp for being related to him doesnt.

What do you mean 'no crimes', crime is defined by the state who makes the laws, the DPRK decides what is crime and punishes it accordingly whether you agree with it or not.

Well a crime of no consequence I should say.

Well a crime of no consequence I should say.
So are many crimes, some not in the DPRK.

So are many crimes, some not in the DPRK.

DPRK? Im not familiar with that acronym, please enlighten me.

DPRK? Im not familiar with that acronym, please enlighten me.

Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, AKA: North Korea

DPRK? Im not familiar with that acronym, please enlighten me.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it's the proper term for North Korea, as the Republic of Korea is for the South.

DPRK? Im not familiar with that acronym, please enlighten me.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Official name of North Korea (South is simply the Republic of Korea, or ROK).

Edit: Man, many answers for a simple question!

Yes it makes sense now, thank you for your prompt reply.

This is not surprising, but it still is sad, executing people who commited nohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21980026/ crimes.
Disgusting, the death penalty in general is bad enough but putting it on show like that, and for such trivial crimes...

They weren't killed for comitting crimes at all. They were killed for upsetting the authorities.

The DPRK has no rule of law. The people are owned by the state, which may dispose of them as it sees fit.

Disgusting, the death penalty in general is bad enough but putting it on show like that, and for such trivial crimes...

Indeed. It's beyond words.

Does anyone know Kim Jong-Il's phone number?

By the way, the photo slideshow of North Korea (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15215955/displaymode/1107/s/2/), with the article, is fascinating.

By the way, the photo slideshow of North Korea (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15215955/displaymode/1107/s/2/), with the article, is fascinating.

Pyongyang is beautiful, those people deserve some rights to go along with that beautiful city of theirs :(

Does anyone know Kim Jong-Il's phone number?

1-800-ISO-RONRY

1-800-ISO-RONRY

1-800-U-WIN-THE-THREAD

I am loving those Soviet-style military uniforms, :awesome:

I am loving those Soviet-style military uniforms, :awesome:

I do agree with you on this one. DPRKian culture is so...quaint.

I do agree with you on this one. DPRKian culture is so...quaint.

Actually I think it resembles the popular devotional Maoist culture more than the USSR or 'Stalinism', I mean just watch the Mass Games etc.

Actually I think it resembles the popular devotional Maoist culture more than the USSR or 'Stalinism', I mean just watch the Mass Games etc.

It is interesting to see how they go about their daily lives. There is most certainly something beyond the mass fear of Stalinism. I wouldn't mind going to the DPRK on vacation one of these days. But, alas, it probably is not to be.

I wouldn't mind going to the DPRK on vacation one of these days. But, alas, it probably is not to be.

It's not worth the hassle to even get into the country, then putting up with government officials following you around.

It's not worth the hassle to even get into the country, then putting up with government officials following you around.

I think a Japanese company (with the Cooperation of the DPRKian government, of course) offers vacations there. Subject to lots of laws and restrictions, surely, but still really really interesting.

I think you are confusing Korea with the Northern Korea Government

There are documentaries about North Korea, you get the culture without the risk.

I have seen one, it was fancinating and sad at the same time. I don't remember what it was called but its about eye surgeons going there.

Well, the DPRK is the last bastion of Stalinism on Earth...the best image of a failed system and the horrors it inflicts on a people trapped under it.

Seeing it is like seeing what the Soviet Union would have been had Malenkov and Khrushchev not saved it by breaking up the cult of Stalin and reforming the system in to a functional society that existed above and beyond the fear and the cult of personality Stalin used to keep himself in power. Honestly, the gap between the USSR and the DPRK is like the gap between the US and the USSR; hell, East Germany was Monaco compared to this place.