North Korea: First signs of protest in world's top secret state

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The first known visual evidence of dissent within the world's most secretive state emerged yesterday when video footage taken in a North Korean factory showed a portrait of the dictator, Kim Jong-il, defaced with graffiti demanding freedom and democracy.

The 35-minute video clip, said to have been taken in November, was posted on the website of an opposition group based in South Korea. It shows a poster of Kim scrawled over with the words: "Down with Kim Jong-il. Let's all rise to drive out the dictatorial regime.''

Such an act would be considered a grave crime in the North and would mean a death sentence without trial for the perpetrator, said Do Hee-youn, who heads the group. "It's no ordinary group of people who took this video," he told Reuters news agency.

The video, which also shows street scenes outside the factory, is accompanied by the voice of a narrator. "The gentle and ordinary people of North Korea need a new leader," a male voice says. "There is a great potential for democracy in this country."

[dubyaD40web]

1. Your link doesn't work.

Here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/18/wkor18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/18/ixportal.html

[T_i_B]

2. Thanks

Telegraph links can be a bugger to post.

[seriousstan]

3. I am sure people have already died for this graffiti.

[Bono71]

4. Or were sent to a "work" camp.