North Korea is becoming increasingly dangerous.
China used to be the United States’ best hope in diffusing tension between a delusional dictator and his dangerous nuclear toys, but it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
And now the Supreme Leader of North Korea is doing something that’s causing a massive concern.
It wasn’t long ago that former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman was being a peacekeeper between the UN and the U.S.
The dictator of North Korea hates nearly everything associated with America, but for some odd reason he’s taken an affection towards the former Bulls forward.
Kim Jong-Un keeps toying with his nuclear arsenal, ignoring the growing concern from the rest of the world.
But the way they execute criminals is extremely disturbing.
Nearly the entire civilized world has put public executions in their rearview mirrors, but that’s not the case with Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea.
The New York Post reports:
Kim Jong Un’s brutal North Korean regime shot so-called “criminals” to death in schoolyards and fish markets in a twisted attempt to create an “atmosphere of fear” throughout the dictatorship, a Wednesday report from a human rights group revealed.
The report, released by the Transnational Justice Working Group in Seoul, gathered information from more than 300 North Korean refugees who witnessed the regime’s firing squad executing criminals in public areas to attract large crowds and instill fear in its citizens.
“In ordinary areas outside the prison system, our interviewees stated that public executions take place near river banks, in river beds, near bridges, in public sports stadiums, in the local marketplace, on school grounds in the fringes of the city, or on mountainsides,” the report stated.
The report said people were publicly executed for crimes such as stealing rice and livestock and distributing South Korean media.
Those prisoners were mixed in with citizens convicted of violent crimes, such as murder and manslaughter, as well as organized prostitution and sexual assault.
“Many interviewees said that the final decision for a public execution was often influenced by individuals having a ‘bad’ family background in addition to the crime they were alleged to have committed,” the report stated.
The executions were carried out publicly to create an ‘atmosphere of fear,’ according to the report.
The South Korean non-governmental organization that authored the document also mapped out the “killing sites” in provinces within the dictatorship, hoping such detailed work would finally help to hold the rogue regime accountable for what the TJWG called crimes against humanity.
“The maps and the accompanying testimonies create a picture of the scale of the abuses that have taken place over decades,” the report said.
Kim’s regime has long denied human rights abuses.
But in 2014, a United Nations commission report found the country had a slew of human rights violations.
North Korea, however, has continued to insist its citizens are protected under the country’s constitution, Reuters reported.
Pyongyang also accuses the United States of being the ‘world’s worst rights violator.’
Questions about North Korea’s treatment of prisoners recently made international news after American student Otto Warmbier died last month.
Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor last year for allegedly stealing a political poster from a hotel in Pyongyang.
But North Korea returned him last month to his Cincinnati home in a coma. Warmbier had suffered severe brain damage and soon died.
North Korea denied cruelly treating or torturing Warmbier during his time in prison, saying they were the ‘biggest victim’ in the incident.
North Korean defectors have long denounced the abysmal conditions and the violation of human rights because Kim Jong-Un is a disturbed man with a God complex.
The irony is that Jong-Un is more of a danger to his own citizens than he is to the rest of the world.