North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency has declared that Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of Kim Jong Un and former vice Chairman of the National Defence Commission, has been executed.
North Korea announced news that Jang had been tried in a special military tribunal in a bulletin released early Friday morning Korea time.
“Every sentence of the decision served as sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.
“The accused
North Korean state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency has declared that Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of Kim Jong Un and former vice Chairman of the National Defence Commission, has been executed.
North Korea announced news that Jang had been tried in a special military tribunal in a bulletin released early Friday morning Korea time.
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Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll has written on North Korea since 2010 and writes between London and Seoul.
