N Korean new execution style - mortar firing squad

North Korea’s young new leader, Kim Jong-un, has instituted a novel method of executing military officers — mortar firing squad, South Korea’s leading daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

The 20-something Mr. Kim ordered a military officer to be executed in a way that would leave “no trace of him behind, down to his hair,”


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/m...-firing-squads/

Nothing new,the British used ,more or less,the same way in the Raj ( India).

They used a cannon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun

When I read the title, I though they used "mortar firing squad" to kill a big number of people in the same time, not one person.
Remember the "Khmer Rouge" - Cambodia ? They used a plastic bag over the head of the victim to suffocate him/her, in order to save a bullet.

This post has been edited by Florin on October 25, 2012 06:22 pm

1. It's quite old news (March 2012) - and AFAIK mortars aren't that accurate as to guarantee the "traceless" execution!
2. It seems to me quite stoopid and useless, from the cycle "Ce face Dorel când n-are ce face" ("What one does when one has nothing to do")... but then again communism tends to imbecilize people, so we can excuse them.
3. Alcohol kills!

Soon... execution by nuke.

And the bill will be sent to the family.

Considering that North Korea is closed to outsiders, all of this can be pure fabrication. For example, you can write a similar article in which you state that North Korea carries out executions by forced kitten-huffing and no one can contrardict you or double-ckeck it.
Radu