North Korea 'executes Christians'

[Purple Rabbit]

Just something relevant to the 'Religion is the cause of all the world's evils' topic.

Human rights groups in South Korea say North Korea has stepped up executions of Christians, some of them in public.

The communist country, the world's most closed society, views religion as a major threat.

Only the founder of the country, Kim Il-sung, and his son, Kim Jong-il, may be worshipped, in mass public displays of fervour.

Such reports are hard to verify, but North Korea is known to be intolerant of religion - it views any form of alternative social organisation as a competitor for its own, religion-like ideology.

Very relevant indeed. Especially since dictatorship in North Korea has all the traits of a religion in its phase of infancy: worship of a charismatic leader even beyond his death, dogmatic doctrine, that father-and-son thing, denial of other religions, fierce suppresion of critique.