Five of the seven officials who walked alongside Kim Jong-il’s hearse in December 2011 have been killed, purged or sent to labour camps
Kim Jong-un’s killing of his uncle is a big deal. It is not as though Jang Song-thaek was one of the “White Hats” of North Korea. (There are none that we know of.) He was a notorious thug, a brother-in-law and accomplice of former dictator Kim Jong II. Mr. Jang was instrumental in upholding the policy that no one in North Korea can travel, speak or worship freely. He was there when North Korea experienced the “great famine” of 1995-97, which saw between 2.5 million and 3.7 million people starve to death. (That represented between 10% and 15% of the population.) Jang Song-thaek was described at his trial as “despicable human scum” who was “worse than a dog.” The expediency with which he was arrested at the behest of Kim Jong-un, tried and dispatched suggests a tyrannical government led by a psychotic – not the preferred type of individual for leading a country with nuclear weapons.
Keep in mind, baby Kim is a man who took seriously, earlier this year, an article in "The Onion" calling him the “sexiest man in 2012.” Mr. Kim is a man who it was said in February had “moon-walked” – “the first to do so since Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in 1972.”
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The Byzantines were equally as ruthless, and in the Ottoman Empire, all the younger sons of the sultan knew that they were to be killed in favor of the oldest as soon as their father passed. It was to protect the empire against a battle for power between the sons.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the same here with the North Koreans.
Keep in mind also that these Senkoku Islands that China is eyeballing and slavering over are right off the South Korean coast; and how rapidly they shifted troops to Manchuria during the last kerfuffle this past summer. (Did those troops ever leave? What is with this latest ongoing 'cold weather exercise?) Did Uncle Jang-Song not want to lead the 'People's Army' to glorious suicide on behalf of Beijing? It is always hard to read the NK's, but Any purge within a tyrannical military establishment, especially a public and brutal one is not a good sign -ever.
ReplyDeleteGod bless, and God speed to every American on the DMZ.
God bless, and God speed to every American on the DMZ.
DeleteYes and we could use their expertise on the Mexican border.