North Korean executed for eating his children.

[jimmy olsen]

Sensationalism or the truth? Olsen reports and Languish decides.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/8232015/Man-executed-after-eating-children

Man executed after eating children

Last updated 12:24 28/01/2013

A man in North Korea is reported to have been executed after killing his two children for food.

The Sunday Times has reported a "hidden famine" in North and South Hwanghae, North Korea's farming provinces, which has killed more than 10,000 people.

An investigation into the issue by undercover journalists from Asia Press found the acts of cannibalism came out of desperation for food.

One informant from South Hwanghae said: "In my village in May a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad.

"While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home he offered her food, saying 'we have meat'.

"But his wife, suspicious, notified the ministry of public security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."

Another man dug up his grandchild's corpse for food, and another man boiled his own child and ate the flesh, said the Sunday Times.

A hospital administrator said there was no wood for coffins or cremations.

The Sunday Times said last year officials in North Korea confiscated food from the farming regions to feed the army and reward residents in the capital for loyalty to the Kim dynasty.

After a drought hit the regions from April to June, families in the area began to die.

According to one of the journalists for Asia Press, the nation's leader Kim Jong-un did not help the problem with his "political waste", ordering new apartment blocks, staging "lavish" festivities, and attending a pop concert with his pregnant wife.

Sunday Times said Asia Press was a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which had several journalists inside North Korea.

[dps]

Well, North Korea is the type of place where I can imagine the government starving the farmers in order to feed the soldiers, but OTOH, I can also imagine a so-called journalist making stuff like this up.

[Darth Wagtaros]

It was a modest proposal that got out of hand during implementation.

[DGuller]

Can his wife claim the body after the execution?

[Admiral Yi]

Wonder what he ordered for his last meal.

[derspiess]

It's already been widely rumored to have happened.  And we know this has happened in other famine-stricken places in the past.  So to me it seems plausible, as much as I'd like to believe it didn't happened.

[lustindarkness]

Can his wife claim the body after the execution?

It would feed her for a few weeks.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Wonder what he ordered for his last meal.

german

[CountDeMoney]

Olsen reports and Languish decides.

Languish decides you're a fucking chimp with Assburger's and frontal lobe damage from jamming your head so far up your own ass.

[Ed Anger]

He'll just be hungry an hour later

[Caliga]

I can see that happening.

Not sure if you guys realize this but North Korea, besides systematically starving its own people, runs Nazi-style concentration and extermination camps.  I think there's a moral case to be made for the ROTW to invade North Korea in order to topple the regime and rescue the North Koreans from it.  I'm certainly not a neocon but I would think even a liberal could approve of that action given what the Kim regime does to its own citizens.

[derspiess]

I can see that happening.

Not sure if you guys realize this but North Korea, besides systematically starving its own people, runs Nazi-style concentration and extermination camps.  I think there's a moral case to be made for the ROTW to invade North Korea in order to topple the regime and rescue the North Koreans from it.  I'm certainly not a neocon but I would think even a liberal could approve of that action given what the Kim regime does to its own citizens.

If the Nork military weren't so strong I'd almost be inclined to go along with that.  But from what I've read it seems as though they've spent decades making sure that any invasion would be very painful to the invader.

But if the French want to take that on as a project after they're done with Mali they'd have my blessings.  Maybe we could even provide some more transport

[alfred russel]

I can see that happening.

Not sure if you guys realize this but North Korea, besides systematically starving its own people, runs Nazi-style concentration and extermination camps.  I think there's a moral case to be made for the ROTW to invade North Korea in order to topple the regime and rescue the North Koreans from it.  I'm certainly not a neocon but I would think even a liberal could approve of that action given what the Kim regime does to its own citizens.

If the Nork military weren't so strong I'd almost be inclined to go along with that.  But from what I've read it seems as though they've spent decades making sure that any invasion would be very painful to the invader.

But if the French want to take that on as a project after they're done with Mali they'd have my blessings.  Maybe we could even provide some more transport

I doubt Seoul residents would be enthusiastic about that.

Though I sometimes wonder if North Korea isn't simply such a defective state that in the event their military stuff wouldn't work.

[Caliga]

A part of me wonders if they could be neutralized with massive air strikes (certainly we'd want to destroy whatever partly-functional nuclear and conventional ballistic capability they have) and the the threat of invasion would cause their military to just collapse or turn on the regime.

[mongers]

A part of me wonders if they could be neutralized with massive air strikes (certainly we'd want to destroy whatever partly-functional nuclear and conventional ballistic capability they have) and the the threat of invasion would cause their military to just collapse or turn on the regime.

Kick the door in and the whole rotten edifice will collapse ?