There has been a great hoo hah about the execution of one person in the DPRK with acres of newspaper column space and internet postings on the subject . A few stories about the "restart of the north Korean nuclear programme " (4th time this year that the Western media have said this), possible missile tests and the KPA being combat ready etc have been thrown into the mix. You have baloney from certain websites claiming that they really know what is going on it in the DPRK( oh yes these boys reported the execution of the traitor twice before it actually happened) and shamefully some so-called "left " and "progressive " press organs have entered the fray taking the site of imperialism. However this is all one big smokescreen , a camouflage to hide what is happening in south Korea.
A few months the south Korean puppet regime arrested Mr Lee an Assembly member from the Unified Progressive Party and then moved to ban the party entirely. The Teachers Union and Government Employees Union were subjected to repression . South Korean railway workers have gone on strike against the privatisation on the rail network. They were met by heavy repression by the south Korean authorities with 120 trade unionists arrested and the headquarters of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions attacked ;riot police broke windows and sprayed tear gas into the building. Can you imagine if Congress house (HQ of the British TUC) was attacked by riot police and the windows broken ? . South Korea faces a massive debt crisis with state owned companies along owing $468 billion dollars , South Korea has to pay $550 dollars in interest per second !!!!. A truly disastrous situatiion .
Thus stories about the "purge " in the DPRK as well as "threats" and " provocations " from the DPRK serve as a very convenient distraction from the problems of the south Korean puppet regime and its violent repression
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