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WorldWar2.ro Forum > The post-WW2 and recent military > N Korean new execution style - mortar firing squad

Posted by: dragos October 25, 2012 12:03 pm

North Korea’s young new leader, Kim Jong-un, has instituted a novel method of executing military officers — mortar firing squad, South Korea’s leading daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

The 20-something Mr. Kim ordered a military officer to be executed in a way that would leave “no trace of him behind, down to his hair,”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/22/report-north-korea-using-mortar-firing-squads/

Posted by: guina October 25, 2012 03:12 pm

Nothing new,the British used ,more or less,the same way in the Raj ( India).

Posted by: Hadrian October 25, 2012 04:01 pm

They used a cannon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun

Posted by: Florin October 25, 2012 06:21 pm

When I read the title, I though they used "mortar firing squad" to kill a big number of people in the same time, not one person.
Remember the "Khmer Rouge" - Cambodia ? They used a plastic bag over the head of the victim to suffocate him/her, in order to save a bullet.

Posted by: MMM October 25, 2012 08:07 pm

QUOTE (dragos @ October 25, 2012 03:03 pm)

1. It's quite old news (March 2012) - and AFAIK mortars aren't that accurate as to guarantee the "traceless" execution!
2. It seems to me quite stoopid and useless, from the cycle "Ce face Dorel când n-are ce face" ("What one does when one has nothing to do")... but then again communism tends to imbecilize people, so we can excuse them.
3. Alcohol kills!

Posted by: Imperialist October 26, 2012 09:45 am

Soon... execution by nuke.

Posted by: Cantacuzino October 26, 2012 10:35 am

QUOTE

Soon... execution by nuke.

And the bill will be sent to the family.

Posted by: Radub October 26, 2012 10:53 am

Considering that North Korea is closed to outsiders, all of this can be pure fabrication. For example, you can write a similar article in which you state that North Korea carries out executions by forced kitten-huffing and no one can contrardict you or double-ckeck it.

Radu