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Alibaba.com: Supermarket for torture devices?

SEOUL, South Korea — It’s yet another booming market that China dominates: electric shock shields, spiked batons, electric shock stun batons, thumb cuffs, neck restraints and the like.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Dec 8, 2014

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Even a bad-boy dictator needs friends

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un has had a wild and crazy 2014. He rang in the New Year with rumors (later retracted) that his executed uncle had been “stripped naked, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs.”

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Dec 2, 2014

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