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pampango

(24,692 posts) Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:14 AM Jan 2012

N. Korea punishes insufficient signs of grief

The North Korean authorities are reported to have handed down punishments for those citizens who did not display enough grief at the death of the former leader Kim Jong Il.

According to an online newspaper based in South Korea, some individuals have been given up to six months in a re-education camp.

http://www.euronews.net/2012/01/12/n-korea-punishes-insufficient-signs-of-grief/

Who knows if the story is true, but it doesn't seem to be beyond the range of possibility.

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N. Korea punishes insufficient signs of grief (Original Post) pampango Jan 2012 OP

key phrase, "who knows if this story is true" Enrique Jan 2012 #1

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

1. key phrase, "who knows if this story is true"

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 10:19 AM

Jan 2012

I agree, the sourcing on this story is a little weak: "According to an online newspaper based in South Korea"

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