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2010-08-12 China-Japan-Koreas

23 Christians arrested, 3 executed in North Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2010-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Does this fool Kim think he can succeed where the Caesers, Huns, et al, failed?

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-12 00:16|| 2010-08-12 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 For the typical Nork civilian, his rule is approaching life under the rule of Skynet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-12 00:31|| 2010-08-12 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Skynet? The genocidal computer? The one that rounded up humans and put them into extermination camps? North Korea wouldn't have a country if they did that.

Posted by gromky 2010-08-12 02:21|| 2010-08-12 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 How many Western leftists read about this and drool?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-08-12 07:06|| 2010-08-12 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 gromky: I wasn't really kidding about that. North Korea, per capita, has far more death camps than Nazi Germany ever did, based on a Stalinist model, but even more brutal than the Russian version.

It's pretty common practice that when border crossers into China are captured, they have sharp, metal hooks attached to chains, inserted around their collarbones, to prevent them from trying to run away. Then they are led off to the closest death camp. Even the Chinese border guards are utterly horrified by this practice.

The big difference between those camps and the Nazi ones are first, that most of their forced labor is agricultural instead of industrial, and second that there is no active, as opposed to passive, extermination program.

Third, that their captives' livers have shrunk so much with protracted starvation before incarceration, that they can survive on far fewer calories a day than a healthy person. So it takes them much longer to starve to death.

This is comparable only to the agricultural death camps set up by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, where the standard ration was about 1 tsp of rice a day, literally.

Things like this make you truly wish that Hell existed, as retribution against such horror.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-12 09:10|| 2010-08-12 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 "they cannot help it because the ~~situation~~ socialism is so desperate that people are going back to ~~religion~~" worshiping God and not government. Fixed that.

Posted by Hupuse Panda9678 2010-08-12 11:28|| 2010-08-12 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Skynet? The genocidal computer? The one that rounded up humans and put them into extermination camps? North Korea wouldn't have a country if they did that.

One of the things that dictators like these think about is how to maintain the minimum population required in order to accomplish their goals. Anything above that is a bonus in their minds.

Posted by gorb 2010-08-12 11:30|| 2010-08-12 11:30|| Front Page Top

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