North Korea To Punish [Kim Jong Il] Mourners Who Were Insincere

[DeathToTheOil]

You'd better watch out, you'd better cry. You'd better pout, I'm telling you why: North Korea's punishing insincere mourners, according to the Daily NK.

An anonymous source tells the Daily NK, a South Korea-based publication in opposition of the North Korean regime, that "authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn't participate in the organized gatherings" to mourn the death of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, and to those "who did participate but didn't cry and didn't seem genuine."

Newser reports that mourners who came off as insincere have already been sent to join the 200,000 other North Koreans already in labor camps. An Amnesty International report published in May 2011 paints a dark picture of what's in store at those camps -- estimates suggest that 40 percent of inmates die of malnutrition.

The exact number of those to be sent to camps is unclear, reports the Daily Mail, but the paper estimates it could be in the thousands.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/north-korea-punish-mourners-insincere-kim-jong-il_n_1204377.html

[sakabatou]

1. WTF?

[BadgerKid]

2. WTF^2?! But in the US, if you appear not to be "patriotic,"

such as not standing for the national anthem, that offends some people.

[DeathToTheOil]

3. Yes, BUT

You don't get sent to a labor camp.

[saras]

4. That's because we have radicals and progressives. It's sure not the Republicrats' doing.

[Posteritatis]

6. Are you seriously trying to argue that the two situations are the least bit equivalent? (nt)

[kwassa]

5. and how reliable is this single anonymous source?

Basing an entire story on such slim-if-any evidence?

I doubt that the police state of North Korea needs any excuse, or announced policy, to haul people away.