Weapons ManIf you can call what passes for justice in North Korea — the whim of the latest inbred midget king of the inbred midget Kim Dynasty — “Justice,” that is. South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo:
The North Korean regime has shut down the Workers Party department once headed by purged eminence grise Jang Song-taek and executed or interned 11 high-ranking officials, sources said Sunday.
One of them was burned alive.
Boy, that really sounds like a society and government that’s confident of its strength. And ruled with great wisdom and mercy, too! What’s next?
A source said the regime is preparing a third purge of officials who supported Jang. The first purge involved his family, relatives and high-ranking party officials, while the second purge underway. The third will target his supporters in provincial chapters of the Workers Party.
The source said Jang’s elder sister Kye-sun and her husband and ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-jin, as well as their son-in-law Kim Yong-ho, who was head of a trading company, were executed. But ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-chol, Jang’s nephew, escaped with his life.
Well, sure. After you execute a thought criminal, you always should execute the whole family if you can. They’re probably blowing it by letting this nephew go, don’t you think? And then go round up the friends and acquaintances. Let’s play “Six Degrees of Executions!”
Jang’s closest confidants Ri Yong-ha and Jang Su-gil as well as nine other high-ranking party officials were purged, while around 100 lower-ranking party officials loyal to Jang were sacked.
O Sang-hon, a deputy minister at the Ministry of Public Security, was “executed by flamethrower,” the source said.
The reason for the horrific method that he had turned the ministry into Jang’s personal protection squad, the source added. O managed a bureau in the ministry as his personal security service and raised its status to the same rank as officials guarding leader Kim Jong-un.
And now we get to the weapons angle, and the illustration leading the post is explained. We’re betting that they don’t have a constitutional restriction (nor a common-law one) on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Of course, this is Norkistan we’re talking about, so nothing cruel is really unusual.