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PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean state media say Kim Jong Un's uncle has been executed, calling the leader's former mentor "worse than a dog".
Taggart
reply to post by angryhulk
So is this the same guy from the other day who was removed or is this a guy commenting on that event and now he has been executed?
Leftists always call themselves "progressive" but the longer they are in power, the more they regress and the more barbaric things get.
Iqarus
reply to post by lucid eyes
...i feel sorry for you... but with that avatar i guess nothing less could be expected
Jang was executed on Thursday shortly after a special military trial, the agency reported, after committing such a "hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state".
The announcement comes days after Pyongyang announced that Jang had been removed from all his posts because of allegations of corruption, drug use, gambling, womanising and generally leading a "dissolute and depraved life".
Freeborn
And right-wing authoritarian states are any different?
Left-wing / Right Wing makes no difference, it's all dogmatic bollocks.
Everyone's condemning this without knowing any of the facts - maybe, just maybe, the old man was actually corrupt?
Don't get me wrong, I have no love or sympathy for the North Korean regime but trying to apply even a modicum of objectivity and impartiality at this point would not go amiss.
Swills
reply to post by angryhulk
This did shock me. You'd figure those high in the political chain, especially family, would be immune to such things. I mean, maybe a work camp would have been in his future, guess not though.