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Happens in the best of families! The uncle and the great leader must never have “prayed together.”
(Chosun) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle Jang Song-taek was executed right after a military tribunal on Thursday, the official KCNA news agency said on Friday.
“The tribunal examined Jang’s crimes. All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of the hearing and were admitted by him,” it said.
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Jang Song-taek (left), the uncle of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center) with four-star insignia on his epaulettes, pays his respects to the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.The execution came four days after Jang was arrested and hauled out of a Politburo meeting. “The accused is the worst traitor to the nation of all time who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our party and state and the socialist system.”
