Using freakin' anti-aircraft artillery...






Seoul, South Korea (CNN)North Korea has publicly executed the country's defense minister after the regime accused him of treason, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

Hyon Yong Chol was killed by firing squad using an anti-aircraft gun at a military school in front of hundreds of people in Pyongyang around April 30, the agency reported, citing a media briefing by the National Intelligence Service at its headquarters in Seoul.

Hyon "was purged for lese majeste" because he was seen "dozing off" during a military event and "did not carry out Kim's instructions," the agency said. It wasn't clear what instructions Hyon failed to carry out.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been accused of ordering the executions of as many as 15 top officials so far this year.

However, during a rare trip to Pyongyang last week, a top official dismissed the allegation as "malicious slander."

"Especially because they tried to link the alleged statement to the august name of our Supreme Leader Marshall Kim Jong Un," said Park Yong Chol, the deputy director of the DPRK Institute for Research into National Reunification.

However, he did not deny that executions take place for crimes of treason or subversion: "It is very normal for any country to go after hostile elements and punish them and execute them.

CNN cannot independently confirm the execution claims as North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/12/asia/north-korea-defence-ministesr/index.html

There's extreme and then there's this
If it wouldn't be tragic, it would be hilarious in a "I can't believe they actually did that"-way. The fact that the guy was executed is ridiculous already, but if they really HAD to do it a standard firing squad should've done the trick. But no, they have to actually execute the guy in a way which reenacts some kind of scene you would see in those cheap, ridiculous, dumb, shitty splatter-gore movies. I actually feel sorry for the people that had to clean up that mess.

We should do that here to Politicians that steal our money.

Maybe we would pay less taxes then.

yes, im in favor of shooting some pols, and also wall street crooks, it cost to much to keep them. so shoot them.

They claim he popped that dude with an anti aircraft gun too, damn he was pissed!

Under the watchful eye of a hundred cheering spectators not to forget

Some of us should remember that North Korea is regarded as an enemy country to the West. So naturally, one of the tools used against an enemy state is propaganda. The "enemy" is often demonized to prepare the public for the attack on that enemy.

So now we are being told that someone was gunned down with anti aircraft ordinance. But then in the next news report, they show that the source for some of this sort of data, about N. Korea using anti aircraft ordinance against people, comes from satellite images.

Does that sound familiar? It should. Colin Powell used satellite imagery to "prove" to the UN that Iraq was stockpiling WMD, but before he went out on stage to deliver his performance, he said...."This is bull shit".

who gives a fuck if north korea executed their defense chief

he might have fucked something up or god knows what

america should mind our own business so we ain't gotta save the world

Well I guess they made it clear that "falling asleep during the president's speech" equals "fucking something up" in their book

And actually, I don't give a fuck. That they executed him for it doesn't surprise me. But executing him with a fucking anti-aircraft rocket launcher...

that little clown that is ahead of that country looks like a moron. and does anyone know what really goes on in that country,and like one poster said, do we care?

@Alfa,

good points.