North Korean cellphone users are war criminals

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Using a cell phone in North Korea may get citizens branded as war criminals

Any citizen caught using a mobile phone or attempting to flee to China during the 100-day mourning period for late leader Kim Jong-il will be considered a war criminal and “punished accordingly.”

That’s according to a report in The Telegraph which highlight that this is not the first time North Korea has banned cell phones.

In 2008 the government made owning a cellphone illegal for a short period of time in an attempt to control the flow of information in and out of the country.

However Reuters has previously reported that 1 million people would have cellphones in North Korea by the end of 2011. “This is barely four years after people were thrown into prison camps, or possibly even executed, for owning one,” according to the agency’s source.

Read the full story at: Cnet.

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Tags: Kim Jong-il, War Crimes