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Kim Jong Un has executed his uncle
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/asia/north-korea-uncle-executed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
His uncle was only expected to be put under long term house arrest.
Sadly young Kim Jong seems every bit as nasty as his father.
His uncle was only expected to be put under long term house arrest.
Sadly young Kim Jong seems every bit as nasty as his father.
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Perhaps it's just a gruesome consolidation of personal power thing and anyone who has accrued significant power and who could be a potential rival, irrespective of faction ideology, is being weeded out.
From the outside it looks like that. Anyone who gains any sort of power base is taken out. Sounds like a modern day Game of Thrones!
China sees North Korea as a key asset in ensuring South Korean and its main ally, the US, are kept from being too powerful in that region.
The Chinese undoubtedly get frustrated by NK's antics, but they still stand strongly behind the regime.
This actually reminds me of Stalin's conduct . After WWII, the victorious and popular war hero Deputy Supreme Commander Georgy Zhukov was sidelined although he was rehabilitated under Khrushchev.
Not just after WW2, Stalin regularly got rid of his rivals in purges of varying degrees. People like Trotsky come to mind and famines in the Ukraine.
N Korea is probably the last of the Stalinist regimes and this kind of action is pretty much expected.
As usual, it's all about power.
Sounds like corporate capitalism.
:D:D:D:D:D:D
I wonder . . . . . . . .
Well it wasn't too different in this country a few hundred years ago (remembering old history lessons)
Here's some new insults that Jol can use in his posts.
Why is it ok for the US to do "regime change" but wrong for anyone to do it to governments that are pro US?
I would imagine Jol gets most if not all of his inspiration from the KCNA network.
He supposedly also executed his ex, likely for a similar 'no talk' reason.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyon_Song-wol
And I quite imagine pretend democracy Russia still has Siberia as a 'human disposal ground'.
Yes they do seem to have a medieval mindset
Probably took inspriation from the Miliband brothers