Young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's previously powerful uncle has been executed as a traitor, the country's state-run news service said Thursday.
According to KCNA, the uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was guilty of "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."
On Monday, the isolated regime announced that Jang had been dismissed from his vaunted official post for a string of criminal acts, including corruption, womanizing and drug-taking.
"All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him," KCNA stated on Thursday — in a report that claimed that "people throughout the country broke in to angry shouts" when they heard of Jang's alleged crimes.
Jang-Song thaek was married to the sister of former leader Kim-Jong il would Kim-Jong un arrest her along with other members of the family and execute them or place them into North Korea's vast network of Gulag's? If so this quite the power play on the part of the younger Kim as he shows the countries elite just how far he is willing to go to maintain his grip on power.
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