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| North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un (File Photo) |
By Zachary Keck
According to a report, the North Korean leader was very drunk when he ordered the first of the recent executions.
Japan’s largest newspaper reports that Kim Jong-Un was “very drunk” when he ordered the executions of two aides close to his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek.
On Monday South Korea’s JoongAng Daily cited the Japan-based Yomiuri Shimbun in reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had been heavily inebriated when he ordered the execution of Ri Ryong-Ha, the first deputy director of the administrative department of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party (WPK), and Jang Su-Gil, a deputy director of the department. Both were close aides to Kim’s uncle Jang, who was also later executed.
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun report, which cited a source within the regime, Kim had asked Ri and Jang Su-Gil to give some of the WPK’s most profitable businesses to the military. The two said they had to first consult Jang Song-Thaek, who was then the head of the administrative department of the WPK. This reportedly angered Kim, who ordered that they be executed despite being “very drunk” at the time.
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