North Korea 'executes 80 people for watching foreign films'

[EX500rider]

73. "The division of Korea was morally illegitimate."

What are you talking about?
At the time it was a Japanese colony and the 38th parallel is where the US and Soviet forces agreed to meet.

"In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea in the aftermath of World War II, leaving Korea partitioned along the 38th parallel, with the north under Soviet occupation and the south under U.S. occupation. These circumstances soon became the basis for the division of Korea by the two superpowers, exacerbated by their inability to agree on the terms of Korean independence. The two Cold War rivals then established governments centered around their own respective ideologies, leading to Korea's division into two political entities: North Korea and South Korea."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea