North Korea Executes People Caught with Mobile Phones

Just some sobering food for thought -

Cellular-News reports that the North Korean government is executing people caught with mobile phones. In this day and age when so many of take the benefits of mobile communications for granted, it is sobering indeed to learn that elsewhere people are not as fortunate as we are.

According to the report the South Korea-based Korea Institute for National Unification said in a white paper that executions of those who "circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise" without citing numbers.

There are two North Koran mobile phone network but these apparently have been shut down or at least forbidden to the general public following a 2004 train explosion, which some claim was an attempt on the life of Kim Jong-Il.

While no mobile network is presently available to the general public, many phones are smuggled across the Chinese border, where Chinese networks are reported to have unusually strong signal strengths which reaches deep inside North Korean territory.