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11/23/20 2:28 AM

#359236 RE: Slojab #359211

Your link - Kim Jong-un executes two North Korea officials 'using anti-aircraft gun'

Senior official in education ministry arrested for dozing off during meeting before being killed

Sohee Kim Tuesday 30 August 2016 11:49 35 comments

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Kim has carried out a series of executions since taking power in 2011 after his father’s death as he puts his mark on the leadership of the isolated nuclear-armed nation. The most high profile was the killing three years ago of his uncle and one-time deputy Jang Song Thaek. He had about 50 officials executed in 2014 on charges ranging from graft to watching South Korean soap operas.

"Kim is continuing to replace the old guard of his father’s regime with loyalists," said Robert Kelly, a political science professor at South Korea’s Pusan National University. "The charges are obviously trumped up, and this is how promotion or demotion often works in totalitarian states without legitimate venues for opposition.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jong-un-north-korea-execute-officials-death-penalty-anti-aircraft-gun-a7215906.html