A North Korean factory worker was publicly executed by firing squad this week after conveying news out of the secretive communist state via his illicit cell phone, Associated Press reports:
The man, surnamed Chong, made calls to the defector using an illegal Chinese mobile phone, the broadcaster said, citing a North Korean security agency official it did not identify. The report didn’t say when the phone calls were made. The execution took place by firing squad in late January in the eastern coastal city of Hamhung, according to Open Radio for North Korea, a broadcaster specializing in the isolated country.
The arms factory worker was accused of revealing the price of rice and details of deplorable living conditions to a friend who defected to South Korea, Open Radio for North Korea revealed. The station, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, broadcasts into the reclusive state.
The radio broadcasts and underground reporting are the product of a working partnership of North Korean defectors and South Korean human rights activists.
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