North Korea Resumes Public Executions To Improve `Social Order` In Reclusive Nation
(WorldNews North Korea)

Radio Free Asia said North Korean authorities staged a public trial and executed two female fortune tellers last month while forcing tens of thousands of North Koreans to watch the procedure. The executions took place in North Hamgyong`s Chongjin city in March and were aimed to force North Korean officials to stop patronizing fortune tellers and participating in `superstitious` behavior, according to two government sources who spoke to RFA`s Korean Service. `Public trials and executions have resumed this year, with judicial authorities holding these trials in multiple locations for reasons of maintaining social order,` one source in North Hamgyong province, bordering China, told RFA´s Korean...