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In North Korea, they make sure you die:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/13/n-korea-executes-defense-chief-for-falling-asleep-during-meeting-s-korea-spy/?intcmp=latestnews

I could get behind them doing this to sleeping or absentee congressmen, might give them some incentive to give a damn about their job.

What's novel? Looks like they just killed him regular

... Being killed by Anti-aircraft fire sounds extraordinarily messy.

....which seems like a bigger issue for the guy that has to bag up the pieces rather than the dead guy.

I'm surprised they just don't turn birds loose as the cleanup crew.

Better than getting your head sawed off by Ahmed and his gakky kitchen knife, I suppose...

Even money says this

Would be funnier if they put him in a catapult first ant then shot at him like skeet.

PULL!

North Korean executions really deserve a bingo square.

 jreilly89 wrote:
What's novel? Looks like they just killed him regular

You either:

1) Weren't paying attention

or

2) Have a whole new definition for 'regular'!

So far we have
Flame Thrower
Direct hit from a mortar
Gun Line
Now Anti Aircraft shot

I miss any?

Going to wait for
Chain Saw
Beach Umbrella Impalement
Katana
.......
Curious if Little Mad Kim is a Walking Dead fan

 Jihadin wrote:
So far we have
Flame Thrower
Direct hit from a mortar
Gun Line
Now Anti Aircraft shot

I miss any?

Going to wait for
Chain Saw
Beach Umbrella Impalement
Katana
.......
Curious if Little Mad Kim is a Walking Dead fan

I was going to say by dog, but that may have been debunked http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/06/us-korea-north-jang-idUSBREA050DP20140106

I wonder how much of NKs GDP is spent on these extravagant methods of execution?

 Grey Templar wrote:
I wonder how much of NKs GDP is spent on these extravagant methods of execution?

You have to think of them as vital training opportunities for the crews firing the various weapons to determine the real value of these executions

 Alpharius wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
What's novel? Looks like they just killed him regular

You either:

1) Weren't paying attention

or

2) Have a whole new definition for 'regular'!

Oh okay, I didn't know they killed him with AA guns. I thought that was the cover up and he got executed regular style

 d-usa wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
I wonder how much of NKs GDP is spent on these extravagant methods of execution?

You have to think of them as vital training opportunities for the crews firing the various weapons to determine the real value of these executions

I wonder if they were actually so sporting. Do we have any photographic evidence of them actually having to aim, or were they lazy and just stood him 5' in front of the barrel?

If it was the former, that makes the Mortar execution much more impressive.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
I wonder how much of NKs GDP is spent on these extravagant methods of execution?

You have to think of them as vital training opportunities for the crews firing the various weapons to determine the real value of these executions

I wonder if they were actually so sporting. Do we have any photographic evidence of them actually having to aim, or were they lazy and just stood him 5' in front of the barrel?

If it was the former, that makes the Mortar execution much more impressive.

Maybe they threw him out of a helicopter (parachute optional)?

 Alpharius wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
What's novel? Looks like they just killed him regular

You either:

1) Weren't paying attention

or

2) Have a whole new definition for 'regular'!

There's normal regular, and there's NK regular. I'd say this counts as NK regular--and I'm fairly sure they've used AA as an execution method before, too, like here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11572789/Satellite-images-capture-North-Korea-executions-carried-out-with-anti-aircraft-guns.html

They're getting unimaginative.

Agreed Avatar, I think the torn apart by dogs idea has some merit for North Korea. Enemy of the state executed in ridiculous style, plus the dogs can be given out in a national lottery later. I'm sure those not in the army would appreciate the protein.

For a ridiculous fee I am willing to be employed as a callous ideas man for Kim Jong-Un .

Life in a dictatorship is nasty. Make it a dictatorship where the man in charge is genuinely uncertain of his position, and you’ll him violently remove rivals to his power.

The AA gun is a bit of morbid theatre, but dead is dead, really.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I was going to say by dog, but that may have been debunked http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/06/us-korea-north-jang-idUSBREA050DP20140106

I was going to add that one too, and didn't even think to double check it was genuine. Thanks for doing the background work.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
So far we have
Flame Thrower
Direct hit from a mortar
Gun Line
Now Anti Aircraft shot

I miss any?

Going to wait for
Chain Saw
Beach Umbrella Impalement
Katana
.......
Curious if Little Mad Kim is a Walking Dead fan

I was going to say by dog, but that may have been debunked http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/06/us-korea-north-jang-idUSBREA050DP20140106

Wasn't the flame thrower execution debunked as well?

Isn't it kind of a waste of ammunition when you have to snap fire those AA weapons?

 Peregrine wrote:
Isn't it kind of a waste of ammunition when you have to snap fire those AA weapons?

Its a very narrow firing lane. Like a foot and half wide at most

That's about the width of your average North Korean dictator right now, isn't it?

 d-usa wrote:
That's about the width of your average North Korean dictator right now, isn't it?

I'm sure he's at least twice that wide.

 Peregrine wrote:
Isn't it kind of a waste of ammunition when you have to snap fire those AA weapons?

Its Twinlinked, so its decent.

NK is still using 2nd edition, clearly.

I counted the leaders and we seem to be in 3rd edition, the one where they neaten up the system and make things more simplified. I think Jong-Un is rolling on random tables for his execution styles though. I think Kim Jong- Un could be a equivalent to Jervis. "Play nice uncle or i'll *rolls dice* aha! 666, nuke you into orbit, fun"