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[nautilus]

North Korea executes official for blunder
3 hrs ago Reuters

North Korea has executed a ruling party official blamed for a botched currency reform, in a desperate attempt to quell public unrest and stem negative impact on Pyongyang's power succession, a news report said on Thursday.

The execution by firing squad in Pyongyang last week of Pak Nam-ki, Labour Party chief for planned economy, was for the crime of "a son of a bourgeois conspiring to infiltrate the ranks of revolutionaries to destroy the national economy," South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, quoting sources.

Kim is believed to be in poor health, which means there is a rush to prepare one of his sons for succession, South Korean officials and analysts said.

The last straw for Pak's fate was the perception the policy blunder was going to affect the succession process, Yonhap said.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100318/tpl-uk-korea-north-currency-81f3b62.html

[bacasper]

The US could learn a few things from the Norks.

[caniff]

It's always the bourgeois messing around and fouling up the Worker's Paradise. I can but simply ask: WTF?

Should be interesting to see what perverse interests KJI's little seed unleashes.

[nautilus]

[Harpeau]