Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle was not executed because of a power struggle within the regime but over a conflict of interest between the two men relating to business projects, South Korea's main intelligence service reportedly said Monday.
The National Intelligence Service said in an assessment delivered to South Korean lawmakers that the uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was detained in mid-November and that Kim's hold on power is stable, legislator Jung Chung-rae told reporters after the briefing.
North Korea announced earlier this month that Jang had been executed for trying to overthrow the government, an unusually public declaration from the secretive state.
If true then it just proves a central point about human nature greed seems to have its grip not only on us Western Capitalist degenerates but also on those who run "socialist utopias" masquerading as human rights abusing dictatorship's.
Update
According to published report in Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun Kim-Jong un was drunk when ordered the executions of his uncles top aides.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was "very drunk" when he ordered the recent execution of two aides close to his uncle Jang Song-thaek, reports say.
According to the Japanese newspaperYomiuri Shimbun, the pair questioned an order from the dictator to hand over control of a business to the military. Sources told the newspaper Kim was "upset" when they said they needed to check with "Director Jang" first.
The paper said that it was intelligence from the first two deaths that made the South Korean government aware Jang's own execution was "inevitable". "Those who were close [to the two aides] were surprised by their execution, and made phone calls to their friends living abroad, and the South Korean government [spy agency] wiretapped their phone conversations,2 the newspaper said.
In all, at least eight people from Jang's circle were executed in the purge - alongside the director himself.
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