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Gideon Gono, be glad you're not North Korean

I believe in accountability, but perhaps not the North Korean version.

North Korea has executed a senior official blamed for currency reforms that damaged the already ailing economy and potentially affected the succession, a news agency in the South reported today.

Pak Nam-gi was killed by firing squad last week, said Yonhap, citing multiple sources. The Workers' party chief for planning and the economy had not been seen in public since January.

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3 Comments

Justin Kraus · March 20, 2010 at 03:55 AM

What is really despressing is that even with such strict accountability measures, the idiocy of the currency reforms went ahead anyway. Everyone in North Korea knows that if you make the wrong move your head is literally on the line, so the real question is how could they have deluded themselves into thinking that the currency reforms would have actually worked?

Matt · March 21, 2010 at 08:18 AM

North Korea is now the only place that you could actually commit suicide-by-policy

Aaron Ruzvidzo · March 25, 2010 at 12:11 PM

Gideon Gono's head should be placed on the block as well since the ZANU PF regime is a replica of the Workers Party of North Korea.