North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as ‘war criminals’

North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as “war criminals.” Citizens caught defecting to China or using mobile phones during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il will be considered “war criminals” and punished. Seriously, is there any place on earth more effed-up than this craphole? And to Jimmy Peanuts and the other morons who talk about it like it’s paradise… go there and stay there. Go to hell.

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  • Shame we don't have thousands of cell phone numbers over there. Especially in their military. We could all start calling them. : )

    • Yeah, I could just imagine all of the IHTM regulars calling north Korean cell phones and asking for Kim.

  • North Korea is just 1 of several examples of why it's important to fishish off wars. If we had nuked these m-effers back during the war, we would'nt be dealing with this prison state. This photo tells you all you need to know about collectivism & the cult of personality...

    http://bigthink.com/ideas/21270

    ...& this is 1 of the greatest advertisements against collectivism & a cult of personality. Like Obama & "collective salvation", I'm just saying...

    • Yes, it kind of begs the question -- if we'd have nuked them back to the stone age, what would be different now?

      There'd probably be a lot more people alive and not starving -- like in Japan.

      • If The Kaiser had Marx killed, the world would have been different as well. But someone else wold have popped up to fill that vacum. History tells us that someone or something always fills power vacums.

    • The gangbangers and burglars will love it when it is dark too. I wonder if the Euphorians ever consider the amount of electricity that is used by businesses to flood their area with light to discourage the dirt balls that have been arrested 50 times by the police and released (often without even a slap on the wrist) by the liberal judges just as often. These same Euphorians always feel you cannot give the career criminal enough second chances....that is until it bites them in the ass.

    • Oh well...now it is out...this pic just makes Al Gore and the Polar Bear squeezers go all giddy - this is their ultimate goal for the US.

  • Could people who talk on cell phones will driving in the United States be considered war criminals? Sorry if I have offended any of my friends here at IHTM with that statement. I am still working through some anger at barely avoiding several accidents while driving, seeing afterwards that the other driver was yacking on a cell phone.

    • War criminals, no, stupid idiots, yes. Unfortunately, getting pissed aggravates the problem. I also have a tendency to get angry when other people do stupid stuff on the road and have to work to control it. But it's worth it, just for the money I've saved on dashboards and steering wheels alone. :-)