Looking at Kim Jong Un giving directions from the bleachers of what seems a sports arena could give some the impression of it being a lighthearted moment for the young dictator.
But what he is probably doing in this picture, is give direction on how to coreograph the public execution of sentenced people in this arena for maximum effect. Up to 80 people are believed to have killed publicly last week in North Korea.
Most of the people executed had been condemned to death solely for the crime of watching smuggled South Korean television shows.
The executions did not all take place in the arena pictured above, but instead was done simultaneously in spaces just as this one, in seven different cities on November 3rd. The scattering of the killings was probably done to maximize the terrifying publicity the public executions generate.
The death sentences are very well attended, because the government gathers up tens of thousands of people and forces them to attend the gruesome spectacles.
Most of the executions are believed to have been prompted by a renewed wave of underground activitism, which is scaring the young dictator. A defector run website in South Korea, called Daily NK, had actually anticipated the wave of killings by many months.
Technology in fact, is undermining the dictator's efforts at cutting off his people from any outside source of news or television programming. And that is causing people to reach out and risk it all in a quest for information.
Partial Source : France 24/ 11.11.13
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