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lookingfortruth

(263 posts)
Sat May 26, 2012, 02:34 AM May 2012

Report: N. Korean officials executed in staged traffic accidents

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/report-n-korean-official-executed-staged-traffic-accidents-155745223.html


A new Amnesty International report paints a gruesome picture of summary executions, torture and ill-treatment in North Korea as Kim Jong Un succeeded his late father, Kim Jong Il, as the country's ruler last December.

The country used firing squads or staged traffic accidents to execute 30 officials involved in talks to unite North and South Korea, according to the 2012 Amnesty International report released Thursday. It also notes that the country had been questioned about another 37 reported executions between 2007 and 2010 for "financial crimes."
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Kind of makes one wonder if the U.S. should rethink how it deals with North Korea. At least with Jong Il it was dealing with the Mad Doctor but now it seems the patients are in charge of this place and there is no way to reason with them.

One question. How does one stage a Car accident to execute someone?
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Report: N. Korean officials executed in staged traffic accidents (Original Post) lookingfortruth May 2012 OP
Maybe railsback May 2012 #1
hmmm. maybe. lookingfortruth May 2012 #2
Wow, Dr. Evil wants to pay you for lessons in diabolical scheming. Zalatix May 2012 #4
Or perhaps killed them then crashed a couple cars with the body in one. jtuck004 May 2012 #3
Just lie probably intaglio May 2012 #5
What I'm thinking... jmowreader May 2012 #6
 

railsback

(1,881 posts)
1. Maybe
Sat May 26, 2012, 02:45 AM
May 2012

official intentionally rammed by government assassin, acts the victim, starts a fight, kills the official, and is admonished in court, deeming his actions as 'in self defense'.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
4. Wow, Dr. Evil wants to pay you for lessons in diabolical scheming.
Sat May 26, 2012, 04:41 AM
May 2012

And you've got a competitive bid coming from the CIA, too.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
3. Or perhaps killed them then crashed a couple cars with the body in one.
Sat May 26, 2012, 02:53 AM
May 2012

Found dead. Traffic statistic, dictator style.

intaglio

(8,170 posts)
5. Just lie probably
Sat May 26, 2012, 06:32 AM
May 2012

Might go with Smother, drive into water "died of drowning, Mrs Lee"; or hammer, car "going too fast Mrs Park"

But these are unlikely; let's face it who will investigate?

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
6. What I'm thinking...
Sun May 27, 2012, 04:05 AM
May 2012

They let the condemned person out of a car about a kilometer from his home, tell him to walk home and "say goodbye to your family," then run him over.

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