Several large-scale public executions of around 80 people have taken place in North Korea, according to a South Korean newspaper. In one, women and children were herded into a sports stadium and forced to watch people being shot dead by machine gun fire. The executions took place on Sunday November 3, a source told the paper. Speculation in South Korea is that the bloody repression is intended to stop the infiltration of capitalist and Christian thinking into the strict communist country. There is a growing taste for western movies and TV in North Korea. In South Korea, about half of the country’s 50 million people are fairly devout Christians, a distinct threat to North Korea, a state of about 25 million. Daily Mail
