Execution?
A few people have asked, "How do you know he'll be executed?" No one knows that for sure. But we do know it's a possibility. China is a country that executes more people each year (1,000-3,000) than the rest of the world does cumulatively over the course of a few years. And that's just their acknowledged executions. Any human rights organization will tell you that the number is much higher (estimates 5,000-12,000). Citizens randomly disappear. And China uses the organs of those executed for transplants, which makes the prisoner's lives seem more expendable. About a year ago, a law was passed in China forbidding the practice of organ farming. Is it enforced? I seriously doubt it.
Only North Korea gets heat, and only recently, for their gulags (concentration camps). You can read a great memoir about this in Kang Chol-Hwan's Aquarium's of P'yongyang. However, China too has many active gulags. They primarily force the prisoners to mine until they starve to death or die of black lung. I don't know why the world let's this happen, but it does. Perhaps because they make such great toys for our kids? People are sent to these gulags for what we would consider petty crimes and thought crimes. You aren't allowed to act, speak, or think against the government. Dong is guilty of all three.
With these facts before us, it's easy to conclude that execution is a real possibility.
And is being sent to a gulag any better than a firing squad? I think not.
Only North Korea gets heat, and only recently, for their gulags (concentration camps). You can read a great memoir about this in Kang Chol-Hwan's Aquarium's of P'yongyang. However, China too has many active gulags. They primarily force the prisoners to mine until they starve to death or die of black lung. I don't know why the world let's this happen, but it does. Perhaps because they make such great toys for our kids? People are sent to these gulags for what we would consider petty crimes and thought crimes. You aren't allowed to act, speak, or think against the government. Dong is guilty of all three.
With these facts before us, it's easy to conclude that execution is a real possibility.
And is being sent to a gulag any better than a firing squad? I think not.

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