[Daphne – Oh indeed. Just like Pol Pot, Gaddafi and Ceaucescu, to say nothing of Chairman Mao.]

So the story about the dogs was made up, but irrespective of method of execution, the death of the man still took place.

Moreover, the fact that the worldwide media was ready to take a piece of satire about North Korea and take it as fact says a lot about their attempted isolation and our expectations of the horrors they are capable of. It begs the question: What difference is there between the exaggeration and the real in North Korea any more?

In Korea, execution by dogs is known as “quan jue”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Sung-taek

Since they have an expression to describe it, then it stands to reason that they are familiar/use/used it sometime.

Jang Sung was attacked by Kim Jong with such fury that it is quite plausible that this was how he and his associates were murdered. This way, not only is his name and memory erased from Korea, but also his remains.

The view of Christopher Green, international editor at The Daily NK warned that mainstream media organizations had a tendency to reprint sensationalist stories on North Korea with little regard for truth.

“Some news organizations do not check these stories out with people like Daily NK, and thus the sensationalism quotient is being slowly ratcheted down in some quarters. But most don’t, and not only do they not check, they don’t even WANT to check as that would require them to hold back on some stories. They cannot resist the clicks, as it were.”

Those comments sound eerily familiar after seeing many of the stories that Daphne has a habit of running with!

[Daphne – Declare your interest, Mr Scicluna.]

The very last thing I need to do is to “stick up for Kim Jong Un and North Korea” Daphne. This story MAY eventually turn out to be factual but at this stage there are a lot serious doubts. You have a duty to make your readers aware of the many question marks which have been raised about its validity.

[Daphne – My readers are not Maltastar readers, Mr Scicluna. They do not need to be told what to think and how to think it.It’s a very different demographic. You’re only worked up, anyway, because I mentioned the relationship between your idol Dom Mintoff and that murderous oppressor, Kim Il Sung. Try justifying that.]

It would be worrying if you were to find it amusing. Not sure why you seem to think it was meant to be, perhaps my poor writing skill is to blame.

Why would anyone bother defending a spoilt brat who is the equivalent of Gaddafi’s sons, and the Syrian president put together?
This ruthless bastard already killed his girlfriend.

I am sorry but I do not see anything amusing in your comment. This news is so macabre, that I can’t begin to imagine what those poor wretches felt when they were subjected to that horror and terror.

This shows us all that evil does exist.

The moment when these tyrants are removed from the world, the sooner the better. I am disgusted at anyone who befriends such monsters.