China & N. Korea launch harsh crackdowns

China arrests more than 800,000 people for endangering state security

“State Security” arrests top 800,000 in 2004, and show no signs of slowing
down: The number of people arrested by the Communists for “endangering state
security” (Asia News) – the cadres’ catch-all crime for doing anything of
which they do not approve – was 811,102 last year.

http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=2731

2005 is promising to be another busy year for the brutal dictatorship – over
2,000 “appellants,” i.e., petitioners bringing their grievances against
local cadres back home to Beijing – have been arrested

Since convening China’s top advisory board, the National Committee of
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on March 3, the police
presence on the streets of Beijing has multiplied, with police vehicles
running in every direction.

The amount of public security this year is staggering, and seems to suggest
a growing fear coming from the Chinese government. Preceding the two
conferences, police, public security, national security, armed police,
plainclothes police and urban riot police filled the main streets and small
alleys of Beijing, overflowing into the surrounding areas. Many of the
police are from provinces, cities and autonomous regions sent to “defend the
two conferences.” The government is using more than 600,000 state personnel
to “protect” the several thousand officials attending the conferences.

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-3-10/26930.html
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N.Korea

N. Korea launches harsh crackdown
(interesting read)
http://interestalert.com/brand/sitei...02aaa05d83.upi
&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World% 20News
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Enjoy the Voice of Korea propaganda in English:

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