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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Saturday called a recent CNN program depicting a public execution in the communist state a sheer fabrication and dismissed it as a ratings ploy by the U.S.-based broadcaster.
North Korea takes any criticism of its internal affairs sensitively and brands it a part of U.S. conspiracy to topple the government of its leader, Kim Jong-il.
CNN earlier this month broadcast a documentary, Undercover in the Secret State, which among other images showed a grainy clip of what it called a public execution by firing squad of a man accused of helping a refugee cross into neighboring China.
The video tape is full of sheer lies negating the popular and class nature and the democratic principle of the DPRK's laws and tarnishing its image from A to Z, the North's official KCNA news agency said in a commentary.
DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
KCNA said people who know about the DPRK even a bit claimed that the way of speaking and dressing of those who appeared on the screen and the background against which the scenes were shot were quite different from the reality in the DPRK, a clear proof of a sheer fabrication.
A Japanese news agency and a British television channel have also broadcast images they say had been taken inside the North and showed public executions.
As in the CNN program, those images were captured from a distance and included no independent first-person accounts of what was taking place, making it difficult to discern the circumstances or the location of the actions.
CNN is losing popularity as the days go by although it had high audience rating in the world in the past, KCNA said. Much upset by this, CNN staged such poor farce to improve its image.
In the process, the U.S. broadcaster has been reduced to a trumpeter and a political waiting maid for the U.S. administration, it said.
North Korea has been accused of gross human rights violations, including live human testing of biological agents and operating prison camps.
A UN General Assembly committee on November 17 adopted a resolution expressing serious concern about the state of human rights in the secluded state.
South Korea abstained from voting from concern for provoking the North. China, the North's ally, voted against.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....-CNN.xml&rpc=22
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lol, of course N.Korea would deny something like that
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Yeeaah...it's all CNN, even though it was caught by two other news casters, from two different countries. What a load of bs.
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North Korea Slams Broadcast Showing Public Execution
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
November 28, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - Angered by the broadcast of a secretly filmed public execution inside North Korea, the Stalinist state has accused the U.S.-based CNN television network of promoting Washington's regime change agenda.
Pyongyang also hinted at banning the network from future visits.
We have allowed CNN in our country for news coverage several times and guaranteed the necessary conditions, but with the incident CNN has dug its own grave, North Korea's official KCNA mouthpiece charged in a weekend commentary.
[CNN] aired a videotape which seriously misrepresented the independent and fair and aboveboard measures taken by the DPRK for enforcing laws, without confirming their truth, it said.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the reclusive regime's official name.
CNN earlier this month broadcast a documentary entitled Undercover in the Secret State, showing footage reportedly smuggled out of North Korea by a defector.
In addition to scenes of a public execution by shooting, the program also showed footage depicting other abuses of human rights as well as signs of dissent inside the authoritarian state, including images of a dissident defacing a poster of Kim Jong-il.
The commentary lashed out at the network, calling it a reptile and a trumpeter for the U.S. administration.
It painted the documentary as part of a broader conspiracy by the U.S. against Pyongyang, adding that the Washington Post had earlier been instigated to publish allegations about the use of poisonous gas experiments.
Secretly filmed footage of executions in North Korea have in fact been circulating for months, with one such item broadcast on the Japanese network n-TV last March.
The Washington Post was not alone in covering the poison gas claims. A BBC documentary aired early this year featured a defector claiming to be a former senior manager at a North Korean prison camp, who said he witnessed prisoners gassed to death in experiments suspected to have been testing agents for non-conventional weapons.
KCNA said the footage shown on CNN was fabricated. It said anyone who knew even a little about the country could tell that the dress and manner of speaking on the clip differed from the reality in North Korea.
It said North Korea did not deny having the death penalty, but does not use such barbaric execution method as the U.S. has used in different parts of the world in the present century as well as in the last century.
It is only the U.S. that is using such harsh torture and execution method as forcing the prisoner to sit on an electric chair, the method unanimously denounced by the world people.
The grainy images seen on CNN showed a man shot by a firing squad as onlookers watch. The convicted man was said to have been accused of helping a refugee illegally cross the border into China.
Similar footage shown earlier on Japanese television depicted what appeared to be a cursory public trial of two people accused of illegal border crossing and human trafficking. One is sentenced to death, and the other to 10 years' imprisonment.
Watched by a crowd, the execution is carried out minutes later. The condemned person is tied to a post and three soldiers ordered, in Korean, to aim at the enemy.
The body slumps to the ground, and soldiers then struggle to cram it into a sack. An official is said to announce to the crowd: You have witnessed how miserable fools end up. Traitors who betray the nation and its people end up like this.
Life Funds for North Korean Refugees (LFNKR), a Japan-based organization, took the clip to Geneva to show to delegates at the annual U.N. Commission for Human Rights meeting.
LFNKR said the footage was secretly taped in Yuson district near the Chinese border and smuggled out at great risk.
Other North Korean defectors had corroborated key aspects of the footage, including the area where the execution had taken place and the format.
The organization said the area was on an important escape route into China, and suggested the public killings were intended to scare other would-be defectors not to try cross the border.
Tens of thousands of North Korean refugees have slipped into China, but once there face the risk of being rounded up and repatriated. Beijing considers them illegal migrants, not refugees.
Those who are forcibly returned face imprisonment or death, according to human rights researchers.
The U.S. and other Western governments have condemned China's actions, which they say violate international refugee conventions.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus....R20051128c.html
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CNN is really i can't read lol
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i saw that program for like 5 minutes. it was so disturbing, i couldn't handle it all.
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Breaking news, North Korea has hired the former Minister of Mininformation of Iraq to serve as North Korea's new public speaker in hopes to improve the image of oppressive, inhumane, and corrupt tyranny.
