Reach Out and Plug Someone

Kim Jong-Il has come up with a novel way of cutting back on his countries long distance phone bills:

In October, the North executed the head of a factory in South Pyongan province for making international calls on 13 phones he installed in a factory basement, the aid group said. He was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before a crowd of 150,000.

It gets worse:

Six people were crushed to death and 34 others injured in an apparent stampede as they left the stadium, the aid group said.

Reports that these phones were being used as a base for telemarketing operations based out of Durham Region, Ontario, Canada are “false and without evidence” according to Fenris Badwulf who then added "send me your money”*.

According to a report by the the monitoring group ‘Good Friends’, Kimmy doesn’t like his lackeys reaching out and touching foreigners as:

Most North Koreans are banned from communicating with the outside world, part of the regime's authoritarian policies seeking to prevent any challenge to the iron-fisted rule of Kim Jong Il. The North in recent months has carried out four similar public executions by firing squad against regional officials and heads of factories, the aid group said.

The report came a week after a U.N. General Assembly committee adopted a draft resolution expressing "very serious concern" at reports of widespread human rights violations in North Korea, including public executions.

A United Nations resolution, thank goodness, I was worried there for a minute.


*okay, I made that part up