[imText1]A video clip of the North Korean public execution on March 1st and 2nd in Huiryeong has been revealed to the public for the first time. Although public executions that take place in North Korea have been proven a number of times by the testimonies of the North Korean defectors and international human rights organizations (such as Amnesty International), this is the first time the scenes of the public execution have been revealed to the public.
Border Transgression for Survival, Why Sentenced to Death?
Three people were executed with guns in two days. According to the testimonies of the witnesses, one of their heads flew apart from the body after three shots. Just imagining that is realizing just how horrible the scenes actually are.
The charge against the executed people was for “the crime of illegal transgression of the border and assisting illegal transgression.” They were sentenced to death for crossing the border without state permission, as well as additional charges of “human trafficking” for helping others to cross the border for survival.
It is more than obvious the reason why these people tried to cross the border – it would be for “survival.” Since the start of the food crisis in 1995, especially after three million people died of starvation, over two hundred thousand people crossed the Sino-Korean border in search for food. For no other reason than survival – that is, to give a spoonful of rice gruel to a dying baby – they left their loving homes behind them and crossed the Tuman River.
There has been no previous case for such people who were caught crossing the border in search for food and punished to a sentence of death, not even in the darkest times of our history. Whether they run a dictatorship or military-first regime, the North Korean regime must at least guarantee people’s right to feed their basic needs of hunger. If that is not the case, then the leader has already lost his qualifications as the leader of a country.
Kim Jong Il, Are You That Afraid of Death?
Kim Jong Il succeeded the regime in 1974 and has been ruling North Korea for thirty years. After he gained control, North Korea became the land of handicapped dictatorship regime, like no other nation in the world; North Korea has turned into a land of fear and death. Currently, the eighty-seven thousand idolizing statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il cover the nation. Kim took hostage of the 23 million North Korean people and exploited them for the purpose of “dear leader’s” joy and his personal power.
After Kim Il Sung’s death, it is said that Kim Jong Il slept with a gun aside his pillow, afraid that someone would murder him. When he is in a position to take responsibility of the three million people who died of starvation, his poor soul was only worried about protecting his “80kg chunk of meat.” And is it not absurd that he still claims to be the “North Korean National Defense Commission Chairman” and the head of the state?
In 1997, when Hwang Jang Yop, the former international secretary of the North Korean Worker’s Party, was asked the question, “What prospect do you foresee for the future of Kim Jong Il?”, Mr. Hwang replied, “Well, since he killed a lot of innocent people…” and responded that it was hard to predict the forthcoming future of Kim Jong Il.
Signs of Regime Coming to an End, It is Time to Resign
When an innocent person dies unjustly, his revenge is passed down to his family and to hundreds and thousands of people. It is inevitable that the revenge will end where it started. That is the law of nature. Kim Jong Il has already gone into the spiral of the natural law. The signs, such as that in which Kim Jong Il ceased public execution for few years in fear of the international criticisms, and the other in which he came out with the last card of “nuclear possession”, are clear evidence that the Kim Jong Il regime has come to a near end at last.
I warn Kim Jong Il: Abdicate from the regime. That is the only way to save the lives of 23 million brothers and 700 million Koreans. It will also let the peninsula and the international society function normally once again.
At least in that way, you will be able to save your “80kg chunk of meat.”
