North Korea has angrily denied allegations that it punished some of its citizens for inadequately mourning the death of its late leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim died last month after 17 years of repressive rule over the secretive state, setting off deep uncertainty about North Korea's future.
The North Korean regime commemorated his death with elaborately choreographed ceremonies broadcast on state-run media that showed crowds of mourners beating their chests and wailing with grief in the snow-covered streets of Pyongyang.
Over the weekend, a report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency lashed out at "misinformation" that citizens who had "failed to show tears at memorial services were sent to a concentration camp."
It attributed the allegations to "reptile media under the control" of a group of "traitors" that it said were connected to President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea.
The news agency appeared to be referring to a report last week by the South Korean news website Daily NK, which monitors developments in the North through a network of sources inside the country.
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Those "mourners" were so fake it was pathetic. Pretending to be sad about a fat pig because someone is holding a gun to your head is bound to make it hard to act convincingly. Bullets are cheap, but they still send a bill to the family for the bullet after the execution. Hard to feel sincere grief for a fat pr1ck who does that to people.
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So in other words nothing can be confirmed? Sounds like a smokeshield for a future endeavor on the part of north korea!
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Almost everything that happens in North Korea is worthy of ridicule.
Pretty much what i was thinkin Joey! You just have to know they are up to no good!
I could see them triping one there people for sure , for a country that acts like that,it shows how insecure there leaders are, could you imagine living like that? Id get the hell out of there some how!!! If the us were to be like them id bail.
north korea cant even do propoganda good.they are only about a week late with that lie.might have been believable if they played it off as an assassination by poisoning first.that would give them a reason to act paranoid and punish everyone and get away with it.but because they cant even lie good they look like paranoid power hungry dictators.
It was be easy to mourn fakely (if that's a word). You've just got to use the proper motivation. Pretend you just got your first package of meat in months and a stray street dog ate it. I would be wailing and beating my chest and so on.
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North Koreans were really crying for something completely different: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/why-north-korea-is-mourning/