North Korea Stages Public Executions to Strengthen ‘Social Order’

[TomSea]

North Korea Stages Public Executions to Strengthen ‘Social Order’
2019-04-10


A monument in Pyongyang to North Korea's ruling Korean Workers' Party is shown in a file photo.

North Korean authorities staged a public trial and shot two female fortune tellers to death last month, forcing tens of thousands of people to watch, in what appeared to be a resumption of public executions.

The executions of the two women took place in March in North Hamgyong’s Chongjin city, and were aimed at forcing officials to stop patronizing fortune tellers and engaging in other "superstitious" behavior, according to two sources who spoke to RFA’s Korean Service on condition of anonymity.

“Public trials and executions have resumed this year, with judicial authorities holding these trials in multiple locations for reasons of maintaining social order,” a source in North Hamgyong province, bordering China, told RFA’s Korean Service.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/executions-04102019175353.html

[Fishrrman]

I don't have any problem with the notion of public executions. I believe we ought to revive them, as a matter of principle.

But... not for "fortune tellers".