A boarder wall, Trump-style, to keep the North Koreans in North Korea?...

A harbinger of worse conditions yet to come?...

... For greater 'efficiency', North Korea becomes a country-wide Russian-styled Gulag?...


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A boarder wall, Trump-style, to keep the North Koreans in North Korea?...

I have to disagree: The limitation of immigration is a legitimate right of sovereign states, it is a political topic. But locking up citizens in their country turns the country into an open-air prison. There is a difference between the two.

... For greater 'efficiency', North Korea becomes a country-wide Russian-styled Gulag?...

N Korea... maybe... But the good thing with Russia, this vast landmass is: Putin cannot build a wall long enough to lock up the people. The educated... the young ones will emigrate when conditions become unbearable, independent if Putin likes it or not.

Little well overfed Rocketman loves this way for dealing with those that don't tow the line.

Kim's North Korea Is Executing More Young People in Public.

Public executions of young North Koreans are on the rise, Seoul says, as Pyongyang seeks to stamp out South Korea's cultural influence.

On Thursday, the South Korean Ministry of Unification, an agency responsible for inter-Korean relations and potential future unification, released its second annual report on human rights in North Korea, based on the testimonies of North Korean defectors.

One recounted witnessing the public execution of a 22-year-old in South Hwanghae province in 2022. The young man's crimes were listening to 70 South Korean songs and watching and sharing three South Korean films.

The North Korean Embassy in China did not immediately respond to Newsweek's email requesting comment.

The North Korean government tightly controls information flowing into the country, including the internet, but with exceptions for a small minority of government elite members. Exposure to foreign media, especially from its ideological foe in the South, is considered a threat to Pyongyang's narratives and its grip on power........

North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean road and rail links in a symbolic display of anger

[...] North Korea on Tuesday blew up the northern sections of unused road and rail routes that once linked it with South Korea, with the rivals exchanging threats days after the North claimed that the South flew drones over its capital Pyongyang.

The choreographed demolition underlines North Korea’s growing anger against South Korea’s conservative government. [...] Kim Jong Un has vowed to sever relations with South Korea and abandon the goal of achieving peaceful Korean unification.

South Korea [...] separately condemned the North’s detonations as a “highly abnormal” and “regressive” measure that violates previous inter-Korean agreements.

Video provided by South Korea’s military showed a cloud of white and gray smoke emerging from the explosion at a road near the western border town of Kaesong. North Korean trucks and excavators could be seen clearing out debris. Another video showed smoke emerging from a coastal road near the eastern border.

North Korea has a history of staging the choreographed destruction of facilities on its own soil as a political message.

The South Korean Unification Ministry said the cross-border roads and the rail links were built with South Korean materials and equipment worth $132.9 million provided in the form of loans, and the North is still obligated to pay back the aid.

A bit like a petulant toddler stamping on its toys....

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Little well overfed Rocket Man is playing silly buggers again.

North Korea stages GPS jamming attacks against South Korea, affecting several ships and aircraft.

North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul's military said, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea.

The jamming allegations come about a week after the North test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel ICBM missile, its first such launch since being accused of sending soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine....

Testing out a bit of Russian technology?

Satellite images show Russia giving N Korea oil, breaking sanctions

Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year [...].

These transfers violate UN sanctions, which ban countries from selling oil to North Korea, except in small quantities, in an attempt to stifle its economy to prevent it from further developing nuclear weapons.

North Korea is the only country in the world not allowed to buy oil on the open market. The number of barrels of refined petroleum it can receive is capped by the United Nations at 500,000 annually, well below the amount it needs.

“These transfers are fuelling Putin’s war machine – this is oil for missiles, oil for artillery and now oil for soldiers,” [...] .

While most people in North Korea rely on coal for their daily lives, oil is essential for running the country’s military. Diesel and petrol are used to transport missile launchers and troops around the country, run munitions factories and fuel the cars of Pyongyang’s elite.

The 500,000 barrels North Korea is allowed to receive fall far short of the nine million it consumes -- meaning that since the cap was introduced in 2017, the country has been forced to buy oil illicitly from criminal networks to make up this deficit.

Oh no, what will the people eat now?

Kim Jong-un’s bizarre new ban for North Koreans.

North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating the hermit kingdom.

Dictator Kim Jong-un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the US.

People caught selling or cooking hotdogs face the prospect of time in the country’s infamous labour camps, while Pyongyang has also decreed that divorcees could also be jailed......

When will his appetite for hot dogs end?

Oh no, what will the people eat now?

Kim Jong-un’s bizarre new ban for North Koreans.

North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating the hermit kingdom.

Dictator Kim Jong-un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the US.

People caught selling or cooking hotdogs face the prospect of time in the country’s infamous labour camps, while Pyongyang has also decreed that divorcees could also be jailed......

When will his appetite for hot dogs end?

They probably have more nutritional value than the "ordered" rations for his people. He can't have his people living better than starvation.

Oh no, what will the people eat now?

Kim Jong-un’s bizarre new ban for North Koreans.

[quote]North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating the hermit kingdom.

Dictator Kim Jong-un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, [...]

Funny. Back then in Eastern Germany the Communist ideologues faced the same problem with Hotdogs.

Their solution: they invented the "Ketwurst" (from: "Ketchup" and "Wurst" (sausage)); a delicious socialist speciality. Same with "Hamburgers"...

Little well overfed Kim gets that sinking feeling at the launch of a new naval ship.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un condemns warship accident as 'criminal act'.

A 5,000-tonne warship key to North Korea's naval advancement has been left damaged following a serious accident during its launch ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un.

The destroyer slid off the ramp and became stuck after the flatcar failed to move alongside it, throwing off its balance and crushing parts of the ship's bottom, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

The accident at the north-eastern port of Chongjin was an embarrassing setback for Mr Kim, who has emphasised naval advancement as key to his nuclear-armed military......

What will happen to the culprit who's responsible?

Mr Kim said the accident was a "criminal act" that tarnished the country's dignity [...]

If you have to moan publicly about your country's dignity, then your country obviously has none.

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Since mega-fat Kim saw it with his own eyes, you know many will be lined up in front of machine guns or worse

Since mega-fat Kim saw it with his own eyes, you know many will be lined up in front of machine guns or worse

Tied in front of a cannon, forced to run through a mine field and being shot with a RPG are a few options that he's used before, but I'm sure that he has a few other methods up his sleeve.

Since mega-fat Kim saw it with his own eyes, you know many will be lined up in front of machine guns or worse

Tied in front of a cannon, forced to run through a mine field and being shot with a RPG are a few options that he's used before, but I'm sure that he has a few other methods up his sleeve.

They have concentration camps; far worse than to end up in front of a firing squad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwalliso
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoeryong_concentration_camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodok_concentration_camp#Living_conditions

[...] prisoners received clothes that predecessors had worn until their deaths. [...] clothes [...] dirty, worn-out, and full of holes. [...] no proper shoes, socks, or gloves, [...] usually no spare clothes. The dead were buried naked [...] their possessions taken by other prisoners. All prisoners [...] covered with a thick layer of dirt, [...] overworked [...] no opportunity to wash [...]. [...] prisoners’ huts were foul-smelling and infested with lice, fleas, and other insects.

Prisoners constantly [...] on the verge of starvation. [...] daily rations [...] between 100 and 200 g (3+1/2 and 7 oz) of corn boiled into gruel [...].
[...] Prisoners killed and ate whatever wild animals they could catch, including rats, snakes, frogs, salamanders, worms, and insects, [...] To avoid being detected, they mostly ate the meat raw, often without removing the skin. These wild animals were the only source of fat, as the food rations completely lack meat and plant oil. [...]