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30 June 2019
UNHEARD OF: POTUS AT THE DMZ AND IN NOKO IN LAST-MINUTE MEETING!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?! NO PRE-ARRANGEMENTS. NO AGENDA. JUST A QUICK JAUNT ACROSS THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED DMZ.
TRUMP BE TRUMP. ERRATIC, UNPREDICTABLE, SYMBOLIC, AND MAYBE PRODUCTIVE (AS IN... RESULTING IN A NUKE DEAL AND DARE WE DREAM IT... A PEACE TREATY AFTER 69 YEARS)...
12 December 2013
Breaking: Kim Jung-un Executes His Uncle
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle executed
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1 OF 5. Jang Song Thaek, with his hands tied with a rope, is dragged into the court by uniformed personnel in this December 13, 2013 picture taken from Rodong Sinmun December 12, 2013 and released by Yonhap.
CREDIT: REUTERS/YONHAP
(Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed for treason, the biggest upheaval since the death of Kim's father two years ago.
The North's official KCNA news agency said Jang Song Thaek had been executed after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason, only days after he was stripped of all posts and expelled from the ruling Workers' Party.
News of the execution followed a swirl of unconfirmed media reports that one or more of Jang's aides had defected to South Korea. The South's spy agency says it has no knowledge of any such defections.
North Korean politics are virtually impenetrable from outside and the reason could also easily be a falling out between Kim and his uncle, or even with Jang's wife.
If true, the execution caps a spectacular downfall for a man who had long been a fixture in North Korea's leadership.
"The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state," KCNA said.
"The special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK ... ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it. The decision was immediately executed," it said, using the North's title of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper also on Friday carried a photograph of Jang in handcuffs and being held by uniformed guards as he stood trial. It is not known how the sentence was carried out.
Jang was a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission and a member of Workers' Party politburo.
Married to the sister of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, Jang had been considered the man who could help his nephew establish himself in power but at the same time presented the greatest threat to the young and untested leader.
"This is a man who could have competently executed a coup in North Korea," said Mike Madden, an expert on the North's power structure and author of the North Korea Leadership Watch website and blog.
"He knows how the body guards work, how the security forces in Pyongyang work, how state security works - this guy had very intimate knowledge about very key nodes of control in North Korea," Madden said.
Earlier this week, North Korea stripped Jang of his power and positions, accusing him of criminal acts including mismanagement of the state financial system, womanizing and alcohol abuse.
"From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive," KCNA said, referring to leader Kim's grandfather and father, the previous rulers of the dynastic state.
"He began revealing his true colors, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced," it said.
Regional powers have watched the purge of Jang and his associates - conducted in a rare, publicly prominent manner -for implications to regional security.
South Korea's presidential Blue House was holding a ministerial meeting to review the developments.
The United States said it was following the developments in North Korea and consulting with allies in the region.
"If confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime," said Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.
(Additional reporting by James Pearson in HONG KONG and Matt Spetalnick in WASHINGTON; Editing by Paul Tait)
29 August 2013
RIP Hyon Song Wol (玄松月)... You're in a Better Place Now...
Above: The late Hyon Song Wol singing her 2005 hit, "Excellent, horse-like lady."
Little Kim is really out to prove himself. First, he executed a Pyongyang (party animal) cadre with a missile and now a great, beautiful singer by firing squad. Worse than his daddy and grand-pappy...
From USA Today:
A jarring report out of North Korea that claims Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was executed by a firing squad last week.
Chosun Ilbo,an English language newspaper in South Korea, said unnamed sources in China told it that Hyon Song Wol (of "Electric Horse-Lady" fame) was arrested on Aug. 17 along with about a dozen others; Hyon was a singer, and a number of the others were members of the Unhasu Orchestra.
They were accused of making a sex tape and selling it and were shot three days later for violating the country's pornography laws. A source said some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, and all were treated as political dissidents.
The report has not been independently verified by other media outlets. Chosun Ilbo is one of Seoul's main daily newspapers.
More on Hyon Song Wol (玄松月) can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyon_Song-wol .
02 November 2012
Kim Jong-un's Wife (Ri Solju) is Pregnant with Child
The video below released by North Korean TV shows a plump Ri Solju. Clearly, she's pregnant...You heard it first here at the Fairbank Report.
26 October 2012
Kim Jong-un Style!
Party animal North Korean official spared rope, executed by mortar
20 hrs agoSource: http://now.msn.com/kim-chol-north-korean-army-official-executed-by-mortar
19 December 2011
The Rise of the "Righteous Cloud": 金正恩
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