UPDATE: Sadly...Diva Hyon Song Wol is Probably Dead...RIP

Although they promised to produce evidence on 9/9/13 showing that Hyon Song Wol and her band mates remain alive, North Korean Youtubers could/would not.



So we conclude that the Choson Ilbo (朝鲜日報 in Chinese) is probably correct in suggesting that Ms. Hyon and her band mates were machine-gunned to death in front of their families and friends.  Their crime:  putative pornography.

Recently, Chinese netizens pointed to a video of beautiful, young North Korean women dancing -- the kind of dancing that high school and college cheerleaders perform openly every day in North America.  They surmise that it was this type of "dirty dancing" that did Hyon Song Wol and her friends in.

Unless something else breaks, this piece concludes the Fairbank Report's extensive coverage on the murders of Hyon Song Wol and her band mates...

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 .