Kim Jong-un Ordered The Execution Of His Uncle's Entire Family

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Business Insider

South Korea's state news agency is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of his uncle's entire family, including children.

"Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek," one source told Yonhap. "All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children."

On Dec. 12, Kim Jong-un executed his uncle and his close allies for "acts of treachery," which may have been related to a business dispute . . .



Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-korean-media-kim-jong-203902515.html

[Shrike47]

1. I hope not. Terrible man, terrible place.

[1000words]

2. Fed to a pack of starving dogs, probably.

That's how they do it there, I've read.

[hlthe2b]

6. he's as evil as they come, but that story has already been widely discounted as wrong...

It was based on media wrongly interpreting a Chinese parody site

[1000words]

8. I'm sure "Business Insider" has the facts straight

[hlthe2b]

9. I was referring to the starving dog execution story--no idea about the family member executions...

I surely hope it is false, though...

[jmowreader]

17. Not normally, but in Jang's case they made an exception

Normally they just use firing squads. Apparently KJU believes in "corruption of blood." I believe KJU's blood is corrupt.

[uncle ray]

28. don't believe everything you read.

the hungry dog part of the story was bogus.

[AAO]

3. What Would Rodman Say?

Will this change is opinion of his great friend and buddy.

[SummerSnow]

10. What kind of person would befriend a person that does that?

Birds of a feather flock together.

[AAO]

11. Maybe he didn't realize how evil this empire is.

Maybe he will have a change of heart. He should feel like a real assburger.

[SummerSnow]

33. So true.Even when the media questions him about NK ...

he gets really angry and tries to blame Obama. What an ass

[Chakab]

12. Dude, Rodman is an alcholic, drug addicted ex-jock whom nobody has ever taken seriously. Does his

opinion of Kim-Jong really matter to you?

[AAO]

13. It concerns me a bit, why do you ask?

[tofuandbeer]

39. I love that reply!

[AAO]

47. Yeah, the best I could do under the circumstances.

Why do people feel the need to get in everyone's face around here? Responses like his are what helps create a tense and unfriendly tone on DU. Yeah, I'm a bit concerned that clown is going over there and rubbing elbows with Kim. He is not helping the situation.

Some people just HAVE to have confrontation. These are the people blogging in their underwear while Mommy is upstairs preparing his Count Chocula, Cap'n Crunch, or Frankenberry (depending on how he feels that day).

[tofuandbeer]

57. I know what you mean. I noticed that when I first reading at DU.

Some people seem to nit pick replies /comments and seem to pretend their offended by it. You either reword it, or get reported.
It really sucks.

Anyway, again that was a great reply.

[fbc]

42. Befriending Rodman just makes him look more of a lunatic.

Perhaps Rodman is part of a new covert program where we try to pair up our most ridiculous celebrities with enemy leaders.

[LovingA2andMI]

44. Thank You!

Amazing why folks suddenly think Dennis Rodman is some new-aged Jimmy Carter in the International Relations department. He's a Man with MANY problems as displayed in a recent press conference and visit to rehab for solving his ON-GOING problems with Drugs and Alcohol.

[AAO]

48. If you got that out of any of my posts here, you need english remediation.

[undeterred]

18. Rodman should have sense enough to stay away from there.

[GP6971]

22. The quick answer

is Rodman is for Rodman.

[SummerSnow]

34. When he is accused of being a spy, for either country...

he'll stop going and renounce NK.

[defacto7]

36. Rodman... sense....

Those two words in the same sentence is so ironic I would expect a chemical reaction or explosion. Be careful!

[Unknown Beatle]

4. Evil resides everywhere.

We have to look no further than our own backyard to see evil flourishing in the top echelon of our own government.

Kim Jong-un lives in a country where such things as executing your own relatives is permitted by the cowards that control N. Korea.

Here in the US, we have politicians that permit people to be ripped off by the banking industry, cut SNAP benefits to starving people, hand out billions of dollars of our taxpayer money to the ultra-rich, they want to eliminate health care for everyone, and if they had it their way, wouldn't care if people died as a result of their policies.

Evil is evil regardless of where we live.

[LovingA2andMI]

45. Exactly but we in America....

Bury our heads deep in the sand to OUR EVIL because we're the "World's Best".

Nothing can be further from the truth!

[KoKo]

5. Interesting....Some of us have Family that are RW (beyond DEM Redemption) but...this

would seem a "Step Too Far." I'm happier with trying to get them out the door QUICK for Family Events like Thanksgiving. But, they must have REALLY pissed the kid off. And, Dictatorships can do this kind of stuff....and that's why we need to be careful, these days, about how far we go that we could end up like this...strange as it might seem...it could come to us in the coming years. It's not without precedent in World Affairs/History.

[haele]

58. It's pure Old Testament. And not unique to Judeo-Christian or western civilizations.

All over the world, entire families are wiped out because one of their family members broke a taboo or pissed off a local leader, and all their neighbors will claim they all had it coming, they were "outsiders", or their family was cursed by the local deity because of some crime or bad trait in an ancestor. The simplistic idea is that those carrying the name and blood of a Very Bad Person carry the same potential.
So the only cure is that no mercy can be shown, because the miasma of evil is in "the blood" of the cursed family could potentially spread out to others who live in the vicinity if a child is spared, even if that child does not reproduce, and those families that showed mercy to such an evil might have been tainted and the evil will continue to spread through their families, which would also have to be destroyed eventually. "Little nits grow up to become ticks" and all that.
Simpler just to make sure the bloodline is finished than deal with the same issue decades later when the traumatized friends, relatives, and children might come back looking for answers or restitution. Problem done, go on to living the life of the status quo.

Again, this sort of mass expulsion from a community is not just a Western or a Monotheistic cultural trait. Or a paternalistic trait. This sort of activity has been recorded across the world; it's a tribal trait that is based in the human tendency to a hierarchal community structure and over-reaction to a perceived threat to the status quo that is "protecting" a community.

"Blood Crimes", Scapegoating and Expulsion (including shunning) are symptoms of magical thinking. And when populations are under stress, magical thinking is easier and far more seductive to fall into than using logic and actually doing hard work or having to take responsibility and fix the problem that is causing the stress.

Haele

[GP6971]

7. This is really old news.....Yahoo is just posting this now?

unless I missed the dateline.

I think the method of execution (by starved dogs) has been debunked

[TwilightGardener]

14. No, this is new. They're saying Jang's blood relatives, including ambassadors

stationed in other countries, and children, have also been executed. It was previously reported that they were going to be rounded up and taken into custody--but this is the first I've heard they'd all been killed (not by dogs, just shooting).

[GP6971]

15. You're correct

I've heard rumors, but have not seen anything published until this. Yonhap can't always be trusted, but I wouldn't discount it though.

[AAO]

50. I hope I don't sound too dense, but what is a Yonhap?

[GP6971]

55. Yonhap is South Korea's official news agency n/t

[AAO]

56. Thank you. Learn a lot of things on DU!

[DeSwiss]

20. No.

- This is apparently a new release from the South Korean newspaper Yonhap as the link(s) indicated:

SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Yonhap) -- All relatives of the executed uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, including children and the country's ambassadors to Cuba and Malaysia, have also been put to death at the leader's instruction, multiple sources said Sunday.

Jang Song-thaek, the once-powerful uncle, was executed last month on charges of attempting to overthrow the communist regime, including contemplating a military-backed coup. All direct relatives of Jang have also been executed, the sources said.

"Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song-thaek," one source said on condition of anonymity. "All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children."

The executed relatives include Jang's sister Jang Kye-sun, her husband and Ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-jin, and Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-chol, who is a nephew of Jang, as well as his two sons, the sources said.

All of them were recalled to Pyongyang in early December and executed, they said. The sons, daughters and even grandchildren of Jang's two brothers were all executed, they said.

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[GP6971]

21. Correct...see my # 15 post. n/t

[davidpdx]

16. Not surprising based on what we've been hearing

The regime usually executes or imprisons 3 generations of a member's family who commits a crime.

[RoverSuswade]

19. He world has become much more civilized in the past 100 years.

In fact, they shot the Czar and his entire family in the early 1900s. Good thing this kind of thing couldn't happen today!

[Dorian Gray]

23. If they're executing all of his Uncle's family

including nephews, should not Kim Jong-un be executed?

paradox.

Seriously James Bond evil villain territory here. I would love to see a popular uprising of the people.

[GP6971]

31. Good one !!!!

[LiberalElite]

61. That's what I thought!

I wondered why he didn't lead the way by killing himself first.

[onehandle]

24. We need to pull out of Korea and let China take care of the problem they started.

There is no reason America should be propping up our rivals in Asia.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

41. What does pulling out of South Korea have to do with Norh Korea?

[mathematic]

52. Apple's chief rival Samsung is a Korean company.

That's why we should abandon our longtime allies, the prosperous and democratic South Korea. So Apple's stock price can go up. It's sickening.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

25. And we're powerless to stop it (if you feel we should step in) because...

countries that have nukes are off limits. And as more and more countries get nukes, countries have less and less power to stop the real crazies. I'm not passing judgement, just stating a fact.

[Alamuti Lotus]

26. is the source of this another satire writer (like the last series), or...?

[lostincalifornia]

27. He is worse than his father

[rug]

29. Don't they corroborate news any more?

Yonhap is known for its anti-North Korean bias. And other stories about the purge are probably fake.

[Alamuti Lotus]

32. Not if the headline is jazzy and advances prevailing agendas

Corroboration is for terrorists and commies. Why do you hate freedom?

[NickB79]

53. Hard to corroborate news in such a totalitarian dictatorship

Seeing as they don't even allow journalists in without a contingent of "minders" and will throw you in a gulag for merely owning most forms of communication from the outside world.

[rug]

60. I expect stories of him eating jellied brains with cranberries directly from the skulls of infants.

[jimlup]

35. The change to the new generation seems to be a

giant leap backwards. This guy would give Dracula a run for his money.

[Turbineguy]

37. That's the cool thing about

being Autocrat of All North Koreas.

You can murder anybody you like. Or don't like as the case may be.

And then you can tell yourself how lucky all your people are to be starving.

[AmericanErrorist]

38. Wouldn't he have to kill himself then?

[Beacool]

40. Can any of this be corroborated?

There had been rumors that his uncle had been eaten by dogs. That rumor was debunked. I sincerely hope that this one will too. It would be too depressing to think that an entire family, including children, would have been obliterated to satisfy some need for Kim to take revenge.

[ReRe]

43. Like a Stalin purge, back in the day...

... this is one ruthless individual if he's killing his family.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

46. Well,

that must've been an awkward family Christmas dinner.

[Xyzse]

49. Soooo... He killed off the branch part of the family

Keeping his line secure?
I think that would bite him in the @ss at some point and probably get rid of his family DNA from the gene pool one day.

[gordianot]

51. I read some time ago there were actually shots exchanged by his Uncles thugs

Uncle's men won that exchange, Uncle obviously lost. All of this would not matter so much if Kim Jon-un did not possess plutonium that can pollute in a major way even if it does not explode well.

[olddad56]

54. Too bad North Korea doesn't have oil. If they did, we would come to the people's rescue.

at least until the oil was gone.

[Zambero]

59. Kim Jong-un will not live a long life

Karma awaits him.

[GP6971]

62. The Korean blogs I hit

are now carrying the story. But they are all citing Yonhap as the source