Copies of the Korean version of “Capitalist People’s Republic of Korea”, center, are displayed at Kyobo Book Store in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. North Korea on Thursday vowed to execute reporters from two South Korean newspapers, saying they insulted the country’s dignity while reviewing and interviewing the British authors of a book about life in the isolated country. Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency carried a state court statement expressing anger over the descriptions of North Korean lives as increasingly capitalist. South Korea’s Unification Ministry denounced the North Korean comments as an “absurd threat” and said it “sternly warns” the North to immediately stop threating South Korean citizens. North Korean propaganda is often filled with odd and extreme threats.

Source: Washington Post August 31, 2017 04:55 UTC