N Korean Leader executes uncle

[Crossbow]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/asia/north-korea-uncle-executed/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

At least he's treating Dennis Rodman nicely.

Wow!

Kim is really starting to act like some sort of James Bond villian.

 

[Bikewer]

Just a couple of days prior, NPR analysis indicated that the fellow would be farmed out to "house arrest" somewhere in the country, but that his large cadre would be in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or execution.
Wrong, apparently. Kim decided that the fellow would remain a threat, I suppose.

 

[Polaris]

I wonder if that was lost in translation. When I hear trickster I think of someone putting whoopie cushions on chairs.

That's probably a death-penalty offense in North Korea already.

 

[TragicMonkey]

That's probably a death-penalty offense in North Korea already.

It is an ultimate crime of all ages, proof that one has vilely set one's face against the benevolent paternal love of the eternal wisdom of the great leader!

I don't know if it's just the translation, but everything North Korean is so flowery and over the top. No other country selects its adjectives with such naive bombast. I love that. It's as if Brian Blessed writes their press releases.

 

[Doubt]

Wow!

Kim is really starting to act like some sort of James Bond villian.

There would have to be a monologue before he was killed.

 

[FenerFan]

I bet at least half of the North Koreans reading that press release were thinking, "Mmmmmmmm......dog."

 

[bigred]

He was one of North Korea's elites for decades and brought misery to millions.

And yet he was killed anyway. Sounds to me like he was just doing his job.

Oh them wild n crazzzy N Koreans!

 

[BenBurch]

When does he put his eyes out with a brooch?

 

[Giz]

It's as if Brian Blessed writes their press releases.

You may have been joking but that is one of the best ideas for press releases ever.

 

[ravdin]

I'm not really sure that's true. Aside from nonspecific "double-dealing", the article doesn't actually allege any particular crime he is supposed to have committed during the previous administrations. The only specific allegations it makes seem to reference events since Kim Jong Un's ascension - the lack of overjoyedness at his election, and there's an allusion to his subsequently and quietly hiring some people for lower-ranking government jobs who had been purged from higher positions by Un. I see nothing to suggest he was not as loyal as expected to Jong Il or Il Sung. I think he just did not completely like Un, and he was in such a prominent and visible position that that's really all it took.

At any rate, I think the uncle had ideas about being the power behind the throne. If he did it looks like he very badly overplayed his hand.

When does he put his eyes out with a brooch?

What did he do with his mother?

 

[I Ratant]

Sorry, but I gotta call B.S. on this. Beloved fathers get their teenage sons into the champagne room. Saddam took it a step further, and bought his kids their own rape rooms.

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Yeah, but when the old man shows a few signs of slipping........ That's the way Middle East politics works.

 

[I Ratant]

I bet at least half of the North Koreans reading that press release were thinking, "Mmmmmmmm......dog."

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That's LOL!! racist!

 

[Checkmite]

At any rate, I think the uncle had ideas about being the power behind the throne.

It was widely alleged around the world that the uncle simply was the power behind the throne. In retrospect I wonder if it was this rumor alone that sealed the man's fate, the reality of the situation aside.

 

[Polaris]

It was widely alleged around the world that the uncle simply was the power behind the throne. In retrospect I wonder if it was this rumor alone that sealed the man's fate, the reality of the situation aside.

If either case is correct, the future of Norkland should be...interesting.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

Wow!

Kim is really starting to act like some sort of James Bond villian.

James Bond (Tied down on a rack) "Do you expect me to clap?"
Kim Jong Un "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"

 

[Crossbow]

There would have to be a monologue before he was killed.

Exactly so.

I was thinking of one of those 'big-shot meetings' like they had in the opening of Thunderball where Blofeld suspected one of them of embezzlement and had the fellow electrocuted right there in front of everyone.

That way, Blofeld got his revenge and taught his senior officers the importance of being a good lackey.

So now Kim has got his revenge and taught everyone else what he will do to a bad lackey; even if that lackey is one of his uncles.

 

[Dohvakiin]

It wouldn't surprise me if his aunt was next, consolidating power and all that....

 

[TragicMonkey]

James Bond (Tied down on a rack) "Do you expect me to clap?"

Consider Mr Bond's history, it would be a miracle if he hadn't had the clap at least a couple of times.

 

[Foster Zygote]

A photo of the execution has just been reaked on the internet.

 

[Foster Zygote]

Consider Mr Bond's history, it would be a miracle if he hadn't had the clap at least a couple of times.

That may explain why the DPRK state website once reported that Kim Jong-il "does not defecate". He was overheard to say, "I've never had the crap", and it was mistakenly assumed that he meant something else. I'm sure they all had a hearty laugh and then the person responsible for the entry was thrown into the shark tank.