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[Sergarr]

It's not like you can't point AA guns on the ground targets, you know.

[MonkeyHead]

I think peoples suprise is more down to how extreme it is to use a heavy AA gun as an execution tool rather than the fact it can be pointed wherever the user chooses.

[10ebbor10]

Meh, for a previous execution they used a mortar. Tell the execute to go stand on the X, fire, and then wait for the shell to drop.

[Owlbread]

Kim jong-un's got style, you've got to give him that. Never mind bullets in the back of the head or something like other totalitarian states, he literally wipes his enemies off the face of the earth with mortars and AA guns.

[DJ]

How long until they use a nuke for an execution?

[10ebbor10]

Kim jong-un's got style, you've got to give him that. Never mind bullets in the back of the head or something like other totalitarian states, he literally wipes his enemies off the face of the earth with mortars and AA guns.

Well, IIRC, Kim ordered that there would be no trace left.

[Loud Whispers]

AA as in anti-armour, or anti-air?
Or did a load of people drive into him?

AA only means Anti-air or air-to air, AT would be anti-armour.

Kim is literally using heavy ordnance to execute traitors. There wouldn't even be a body to recover.

[Chaoswizkid]

Who the hell uses AA guns anymore? We have supersonic jets. They'd really only be useful for helicopters. Is the NK still rocking ww2-era military infrastructure? If that's the case, then still, holy shit, because those are large caliber rounds in any case. I'm going to guess there's almost nothing left of them.

[MonkeyHead]

Who the hell uses AA guns anymore? We have supersonic jets. They'd really only be useful for helicopters. Is the NK still rocking ww2-era military infrastructure? If that's the case, then still, holy shit, because those are large caliber rounds in any case. I'm going to guess there's almost nothing left of them.

Yes, NK is known/suspected to have plenty of ww2/cold war gear, mostly artillery pieces around the DMZ. As you correctly point out, they aint for shooting at jet fighters. One scene from Private Ryan springs to mind, as does the old Soviet ZSU (whick NK has at least a few hundred of, in different variants, either given by the old USSR or older turrets mounted on Chinese tank chassis), which would be a terrifying anti infantry platform.

[ChairmanPoo]

The AA thing sounds like BS to me, TBH. Kind of reminds me of the fake news items about executions in Iraq using plastic grinders and/or suicide bomber vests.

[Loud Whispers]

Who the hell uses AA guns anymore? We have supersonic jets. They'd really only be useful for helicopters. Is the NK still rocking ww2-era military infrastructure? If that's the case, then still, holy shit, because those are large caliber rounds in any case. I'm going to guess there's almost nothing left of them.

Shoot people, pray and shoot missiles, execute traitors...

[Flying Dice]

The AA thing sounds like BS to me, TBH. Kind of reminds me of the fake news items about executions in Iraq using plastic grinders and/or suicide bomber vests.

You're comparing stories about a relatively sane authoritarian state executing people in bizarre ways to stories about possibly the craziest living dictator executing people with military hardware we know he has? This does not strike me as abnormal at all, at least by Lil' Kim standards.

[ChairmanPoo]

Yeah. I think the insanity angle is for the most part a media spin, nonwithstanding that schoolmate's testimony. IMO it's like when they ask the neighbours of serial killers if he wasn't a "wee bit odd" beforehand, so I don't give it much credit...

[Guardian G.I.]

As far as I know, a lot of recent reports of North Korean atrocities cited by Western news agencies were originally published in the South Korean newspaper "Chosun Ilbo", whose owners and editors apparently belong to staunchly pro-American circles in the South Korean society (I'm not sure about it, though).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

As far as I know, a lot of recent reports of North Korean atrocities cited by Western news agencies were originally published in the South Korean newspaper "Chosun Ilbo", whose owners and editors apparently belong to staunchly pro-American circles in the South Korean society (I'm not sure about it, though).

*throws up hands in befuddlement*
So do you know or not?