North Korea Calls Mobile Phone Users 'War Criminals'

In yet another example of the country’s complete and total disconnect from reality, the glorious leaders that be, now Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s son, have decided that using a mobile phone during the nation’s 100 day mourning period is a war crime.

Apparently, food supplies have been dwindling in the country, and people have been trying to defect across the border to China or South Korea, where more than 23,000 former citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have recently settled.

In an attempt to cease the abandonment of the ship that is Kim-Jong-il’s regime, the Worker’s Party has issued a warning that any trying to flee the country will be detained and sent to hard labor camps, while repeat offenders get killed. They also said that using a cell phone during the 100 day mourning period would make you a war criminal, apparently fearing that the 5% of the population will use them for the same type of revolution that fell on Egypt.

North Korea has been in a horrible economic state for years, and many government officials believed that Kim Jong-il’s death would prompt widespread unrest. Compared to the United States, nearly every citizen would be considered under our poverty line, with an average monthly income of $15.00 in 2011. and it is that high only because most citizens work in small illegal arrangements. North Korea is one of only 5 true communist states left in the world, accompanied by China, Laos, Vietnam and Cuba.

The Telegraph Photo by : Stefan Krasowski