Kim Jong-un ‘killed his uncle after he tried to stage a coup with China’

Andy Wells

Yahoo News UK24 August 2017

ricky l

19 seconds ago

No wonder in the last 13 years, for the first half, N Korea is opened to the World for eg :-
(1) Opened up coastal provinces to attract foreign investment and market economy
(2) Kaesong industrial park - open to S Korea business investment
(3) Reunification visit 
(4) Open to tourist 
and other business friendly policies.

But later half, N Korea suddenly turn hostile - and appear ruthless and brutal and bent on getting nuclear missiles.

Also no wonder N Korea no longer trust anyone including China and Russia.

ricky l

13 seconds ago

Feel that N Korea should not give up its previously business friendly policies.
For eg. 
(1) Opened up coastal provinces to attract foreign investment and market economy
(2) Kaesong industrial park - open to S Korea business investment
(3) Reunification visit 
(4) Open to tourist 

and more importantly, exchange de-nuclearisation talk in exchange for political benefits and economic benefits --- and try to emerge from the isolation.

ricky l

12 seconds ago

The new South Korean President is more friendly and can be able to push more friendly peaceful policies - that will be conducive to open up and will benefit economically and politically for both sides.

Kim Jong-un ‘killed his uncle after he tried to stage a coup with China’

Andy Wells

Yahoo News UK24 August 2017

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Jang Song-thaek (l) was reportedly executed after attempting a coup against Kim Jong Un (Reuters)

Kim Jong-un is reported to have ordered the execution of his uncle after finding out about a plan to topple him as leader of North Korea.

Jang Song-thaek secretly enlisted the help of China in 2012 to overthrow Kim and replace him with his half-brother Kim Jong-nam, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asian Review.

Sources told the newspaper that the then-Chinese president Hu Jintao did not immediately give an answer to whether Beijing would help to oust the leader.

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Jang Song-thaek shortly before his execution over the alleged plot (Rex)

The alleged coup was discovered by Zhou Yongkang, a former member of China’s Politburo Standing Committee who had close ties to North Korea, before it could be acted on.

After hearing of the plot, Kim reportedly “flew into a rage” and ordered the arrest and execution of his uncle in December 2013.

Following Jang’s arrest, a statement from North Korean state media described him as “human scum, who was worse than a dog”, claiming that he “perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader”.

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Bradley Martin, author of ‘Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty’, said that Jang was “a North Korean who was doing things differently, appreciated the advances that were clear in the way China had modernised its economy and probably wanted the same for North Korea”.

Kim Jong-nam was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur airport in February with VX gas, in an execution that is speculated to have been carried out by the North Korean regime.