From Fox News: 150,000 Witness North Korea Execution of Factory Boss Whose Crime Was Making International Phone Calls.

     SEOUL, South Korea —  A North Korean factory chief accused of making international phone calls was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before 150,000 spectators, a South Korean aid group reported.

     Public executions had declined since 2000 amid international criticism but have been increasing, targeting officials accused of drug trafficking, embezzlement and other crimes, the Good Friends aid agency said in a report on the North's human rights.

     In October, the North executed the head of a factory in South Pyongan province for making international calls on 13 phones he installed in a factory basement, the aid group said. He was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before a crowd of 150,000.

     And like all good reporters this one too feels the need to state something that is readily apparent due to the story itself.

     Most North Koreans are banned from communicating with the outside world, part of the regime's authoritarian policies seeking to prevent any challenge to the iron-fisted rule of Kim Jong Il.

Nah, you don't say.  Just one more reminder of what the Regieme in Pyongyang is all about, repression and agression.  I don't trust these ass holes even less than the ones im Beijing.

But somehow I find it hard to fear someone whose idea of style is bad boufant and a members only polyester jumpsuit.

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