Dilbert with guns
Party Boys: North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is the third in a line of hedonists to control the nation. Pictured are his Dad, Kim Jong Il and Poppy, Kim Il-sung (left)
North Korea reminds me of the Dilbert
corporation with guns. Surely Scott Adams created these characters and
plot-lines. Even the journalist Jay Holmes sounds wacky.
By Jay
Holmes
North Korea
reminds me of the Dilbert corporation with guns. Surely Scott Adams created
these characters and plot-lines. Even the journalist Jay Holmes sounds wacky.
By Jay Holmes
On December 8, 2013, Jang Sung-taek,
the uncle of North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un (a.k.a. Kim 3.0), was arrested
at a meeting of the North Korean politburo, removed from all of his official
posts, and expelled from the ruling Workers’ Party.
He was accused of mismanaging the state financial system, abusing drugs, and womanizing.
His closest associates had already been executed in November for supposedly plotting to dethrone Kim Jong Un.
On Friday, December 13, the North Korean News Agency (“NKNA”) announced that Jang was executed on the 12th after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason.
According to the NKNA, “The accused Jang brought together undesirable
forces and formed a faction and thus committed such hideous crimes as
attempting to overthrow the state.” They cited one of Jang’s most outrageous
crimes as clapping with less than full enthusiasm when his nephew took the
podium to deliver one of his frequent speeches to military officials.
Jang Sung-taek married Kim Kyong Hui, the younger sister of Kim Jong Il (a.k.a. Kim 2.0). In 1977, Kyong Hui gave birth to a daughter, Jang Keum Song. Keum Song was living in Paris in 2006 when she received an order to return to North Korea. Rather than return, she committed suicide.
In early 2010, Kim 2.0 appointed his brother-in-law Jang to serve as a mentor to his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Un. After Kim 2.0’s sudden death in December, 2011, it was not clear if the then 28-year-old Kim Un would be able to hold on to his inherited power. It was only with the very visible support of Kim Un’s aunt and uncle that Kim 3.0 was able to claim his deceased father’s position as Dictator of North Korea.
So why did Kim 3.0 kill off Uncle Jang? The most popular theories revolve around the likelihood that the spoiled and insecure Kim Un was anxious to get rid of the man who had exercised authority over him as his regent while his father was still alive, and as his guarantor while he was trying to consolidate his authority. History is replete with examples of royal regents having sudden fatal accidents when their charge has his or her head placed securely under the crown of state.
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