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| More on Pudgy's Purge of Military |
| 2012-03-22 |
| A bloody purge in North Korea following the sudden death of leader Kim Jong-il late last year saw barbaric methods including mortar rounds used to execute high-ranking military officials, a South Korean government source said Wednesday. "After Kim Jong-un became North Korean leader following the mourning period for his father in late December, high-ranking military officers started disappearing," the source said. The source added But contrary to reports that an assistant chief of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces was put in front of a firing squad for being drunk during the mourning period, he was executed using a mortar round in line with Kim's orders to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair." Besides the assistant chief and an assistant chief of the General Staff Department, frontline commanders were also executed, the source said. Kim Jong-il also purged dissenters after the death of his father Kim Il-sung in 1994. Even those caught for minor infractions were executed by firing squad. But Kim Jong-un's methods appear even more brutal. A source familiar with North Korea said, "It appears that the loyalty pledged by the military did not satisfy the young leader, who is sensitive about his The source said the drastic measures may have been proposed by Kim's confidant Kim Jong-gak (62), the first deputy director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean People's Army. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 It seems to me that anybody could kill anybody and say it was a justified execution. I suppose if disruption is the goal, then this is a "good" way to accomplish that goal. By the way, didn't Junior f@rt during the mourning period? Anyone insecure with their position, which is just about everyone, isn't going to like this. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-03-22 11:46 |