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North Korea’s “supreme leader” ordered his bodyguards to poison his aunt, according to a defector.
Kim Jong-un, who inherited the leadership of Asia’s Stalinist state at the age of 30, appears to preside over a court riven by murder and intrigue. In 2013, he executed his uncle by marriage, Jang Sung-taek, and then denounced his victim as “human scum”.
Jang was married to Kim Kyong-hui, an aunt of Mr Kim. After her husband’s death, Mrs Kim disappeared from public view. A multitude of reports claimed variously that she had committed suicide, suffered a heart attack or succumbed to a stroke. In February, South Korea’s intelligence service reported that Mrs Kim was still alive.
But a defector from the regime – going by the name “Mr Park” – claims that Mrs Kim suffered death by poisoning last May on the orders of her nephew.
“Kim Jong-un ordered his aunt, Kim Kyong-hui to be killed,” the defector told CNN. “Only his bodyguard unit - Unit 974 - knew this. Now senior officials also know she was poisoned."
This purge also saw the deaths of 30 aides of Mrs Kim and her husband, according to Mr Park. Some were supposedly executed by firing squads armed not with rifles but machine guns.
How Mr Park came to know of Mrs Kim’s alleged fate is unclear. The position he held in the regime before his defection was not disclosed. Nor is it clear whether he was speaking from first-hand knowledge - or simply repeating hearsay.
www.telegraph.co.uk...
originally posted by: warpig69
He is solidifying his hold on power by removing anyone who presents to be a rival. He is crazy as crazy gets, but who knows what would happen if he was no longer in power. Would a less favorable option spring into power? Weird place.
originally posted by: SirKonstantin
a reply to: Spider879
Is it wrong of me to want and see an Execution with an AA? You know, damn, what a way to go...
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: Spider879
So it just me or Kim Jong Un is becoming more like Caligula?
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: WarminIndy
I am thinking that not too much needs to be made up about lil Kim. He can't hide the fact that there are no lights on at night in North Korea and no one is making that one up.
The National Geographic special about the starving children up there was enlightening, and the fact that the Chinese had to close the border at the Yalu River to keep starving North Korean refugees out is telling.
originally posted by: WarminIndy
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: WarminIndy
I am thinking that not too much needs to be made up about lil Kim. He can't hide the fact that there are no lights on at night in North Korea and no one is making that one up.
The National Geographic special about the starving children up there was enlightening, and the fact that the Chinese had to close the border at the Yalu River to keep starving North Korean refugees out is telling.
Regardless of that fact, which is true, how do we know that the person is not a Russian or Chinese agent? What is South Korea saying about this?