Activists Claim Imagery Shows North Korean Execution
Without high resolution imagery I don’t think this image is a smoking gun in regards to reported mass executions in North Korea. For all we know these could just be wooden targets they put up for training purposes:
A U.S. civic group has released satellite images of North Korea that appear to show a public execution.
Radio Free Asia reported Thursday that the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea published an analysis of photos taken last October from above a military training area near Pyongyang.
Analysts identified six anti-aircraft machineguns lined up across from some blurry objects, with distinct shadows that appear to be people, also lined up side-by-side on a firing range.
Whatever or whoever was in the images was no longer there in another picture taken nine days later.
The committee says the most plausible explanation is that a public execution took place there. [Chosun Ilbo]
Anti-aircraft guns for a mass execution? That seems like a waste of bullets that North Korea doesn’t have.
“Anti-aircraft guns for a mass execution?”
They only use them against those who are a flight risk.