North Korea ‘under martial law’
North Korea has been placed under martial law and Kim Jong-un has told his front-line troops to “be ready for a war,” according to South Korean media reports.
In an emergency meeting of his top defence and security officials on Saturday, the North Korean leader issued a series of orders that included the conclusion of preparations for a new nuclear test, the Joongang Daily reported.North Korean state media has also reported that Kim ordered his officials to take “effective, high-profile state measures.”http://saccsivdotcom.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/north-korea-prison-camps-documentary/
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While it has been anticipated that Pyongyang will go ahead with what will be the regime’s third nuclear test, in spite of international pressure to refrain from doing so, analysts had predicted that the blast would be timed to coincide with the birthday on February 16 of Kim Jong-il, the former leader who died in late 2011, or the inauguration of the new government in South Korea nine days later.Pyongyang’s preparations have been corroborated by South Korean government officials and sources in Beijing, with surveillance images suggesting that the mouth of the shaft has been sealed in readiness for the test at the Pyunggye-ri site.
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Has North Korea, in recent life-time, ever NOT been under martial law? Are starving people a seperate issue, entirely?
No foreign media allowed into the country.
Most authoritarian and secretive nations
Labor and Concentration Camps are prevalent still
Citizens die everyday from malnutrition while North Korea is spending massive amounts of money on missiles that they cannot use correctly
Estimated 200,000 prisoners in these labor concentration camps
No communication to the outside world as a citizen