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My list of places to never, ever visit is growing ever larger.

So far the only places I'm okay with visiting are Canada, Antarctica, and Lichtenstein.

It was Canada, Antarctica, Lichtenstein, and North Korea before this thread, but oh well.

All the other places in the world apart from North Korea weren't fine before this thread?

It's still a place I'd like to see, but you wouldn't really see anything if you visited. I'd be far too worried about something going wrong. Although from what I gather as long as you keep your mouth shut and listen to your guide you might be ok.

This popped up on another forum I frequent, and I'll say the same thing here.

Not saying it couldn't have happened. After all, North Korea is a bizarre place that makes 1984 seem like a paradise and Kim is not a good dude. However, looking a bit deeper at the only root source and lack of corroboration, this story is still at the level of rumor.

Here's an article that is skeptical, while acknowledging the fact that most anything is possible:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100252705/did-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-kill-his-uncle-with-120-starving-dogs/

So that's where all those fox hunting dogs went after they "retired".

Ah well it's a dogs life....

Sorry I made a bit of a dogs dinner out of that....

I think I'll leave before I get hounded out....

....

 Avatar 720 wrote:
My list of places to never, ever visit is growing ever larger.

So far the only places I'm okay with visiting are Canada, Antarctica, and Lichtenstein.

It was Canada, Antarctica, Lichtenstein, and North Korea before this thread, but oh well.

Canada? you have to explain this one

This really bites.

Kim's government also accused him of of corruption, womanizing, gambling and taking drugs, and referred to him as "despicable human scum."

Sounds alright to me. I'd buy him a drink.

I doubt this is true. This is so extreme that it would probably lay the seeds for a military coup.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I've got it!

Consumed by lampreys, a traditional Roman execution.

Was this a real thing?

 Ouze wrote:
I doubt this is true. This is so extreme that it would probably lay the seeds for a military coup.

I think True and Smart are two completely different things.

As long as he keeps more dogs than soldiers he should be okay.

Ouze wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I've got it!

Consumed by lampreys, a traditional Roman execution.

Was this a real thing?

No.
One guy used to feed his slaves to lampreys, and the emperor of Rome personally intervened to stop it.

It was no more a traditional execution than the American practice of sacrificing your actresses to LSD-tripping, coked-out hippie lunatics.

I remember someone saying that Kim Un will be the leader to stop all this

 Ouze wrote:
I doubt this is true. This is so extreme that it would probably lay the seeds for a military coup.

The worst part is that the best thing you can do is doubt.

If I saw it on the Onion, I'd still question it at this point.

After execution by mortar, most things seem within the realm of possibility.

LEts think of things that can top execution by mortar.
Nope I cant

Execution by swarm of Bees?

Making you live out your life in North Korea?

Being fired from a mortar?

Excecuting somebody with 120 starving dogs seems to be extra ridicilous even by noth-korea.

 Ouze wrote:
I doubt this is true. This is so extreme that it would probably lay the seeds for a military coup.

According to my sources, it may be a translation issue that was exploited by Wen Wei Po. Specifically "...worse than a dog..." may be translated as "...executed by a dog..."

That said, take this with a grain of salt as I do not understand kanji, hanzi, or hanja characters; and so cannot confirm their analysis.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
LEts think of things that can top execution by mortar.
Nope I cant

Execution by intercontinental ballistic chainsaw.

 notprop wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
LEts think of things that can top execution by mortar.
Nope I cant

Execution by intercontinental ballistic chainsaw.

ICBC? We have that over here (Insurance Corp of British Columbia.) Dealing with these miserable fethers would be a slow, agonising way to go if one were to apply it until the point of death.

Sounds like dumb propaganda to me. It's like they deliberately try to make themselves sound like morons. I wonder how it feels to be the laughing stock of the entire world?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
That's, um...pretty messed up. Not gonna lie. I don't even have a witty (or less than witty, depending how some of you view my posts) retort.

Or perhaps it's just not to your taste.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term dog food.

Y'know. I think the fact that we can stand back and say "This is within the realm of possibility for NK" even though it is fake may not be be a good thing

Well some news are now saying it's officially fake...maybe.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/06/22204337-report-alleging-north-korean-execution-by-hungry-dogs-was-likely-false?lite

Those whacky Chinese and their crazy dog eating jokes.