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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 14, 2017, 01:57:46 pm

Title: North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch
Post by: TomSea on April 14, 2017, 01:57:46 pm
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North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch

Seven North Korean railroad workers heard criticizing a recent missile test by their secretive, sanctions-hit regime were arrested by authorities in Jagang province at the end of last month, sources say.

The workers, members of North Korea’s quasi-military “stormtrooper” construction brigades, had openly questioned the value of the launch, saying that the money spent on weapons tests would be better spent on the country’s crumbling infrastructure, one source told RFA’s Korean Service.

“Seven stormtroopers from Jagang province who were deployed to work on the Hyesan-Samjiyon railroad were arrested and handed over to the Security Department,” the source, a resident of neighboring Yanggang province, told RFA this week.

Continued: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/railroad-04072017095337.html
Title: Re: North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch
Post by: Fishrrman on April 15, 2017, 12:16:58 am
"The workers, members of North Korea’s quasi-military “stormtrooper” construction brigades, had openly questioned the value of the launch, saying that the money spent on weapons tests would be better spent on the country’s crumbling infrastructure, one source told RFA’s Korean Service."

If this reflects what otherwise gung-ho Koreans are thinking, perhaps the lil' fat boy's days really could be numbered.

All it will take is the proper "action" by a few of the inner circle...
Title: Re: North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch
Post by: the_doc on April 15, 2017, 12:23:37 am
Those guys are probably going to face either a pack of hungry dogs or a battery of anti-aircraft guns.
Title: Re: North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch
Post by: TomSea on April 15, 2017, 12:44:26 am
Kim Jong Un may be mentally ill; his father was out there, Un is way way out there. That's what they were saying on Fox earlier, and the other channel said in a few years, NK could have 60 nuclear missiles.
Title: Re: North Korean Railroad Workers Jailed For Criticizing Missile Launch
Post by: driftdiver on April 15, 2017, 01:21:36 am
Kim Jong Un may be mentally ill; his father was out there, Un is way way out there. That's what they were saying on Fox earlier, and the other channel said in a few years, NK could have 60 nuclear missiles.

North Korea also has some very bad chemical and bio weapons.  Sarin anthrax & vx among others.