NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong-UN has ex-girl friend and her band machine-gunned to death.

[GreenStormCloud]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html

Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports.

The reports in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper indicate that Hyon, a singer with the Unhasu Orchestra, was among those arrested on August 17 for violating domestic laws on pornography.

All 12 were machine-gunned three days later, with other members of North Korea's most famous pop groups and their immediate families forced to watch. The onlookers were then sent to prison camps, victims of the regime's assumption of guilt by association, the reports stated.

“They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on,” said a Chinese source reported in the newspaper.

More at link.

This guy is pure whack-a-doodle nuts. He makes any other dictator look like a good guy. His wife better hope he never wants a divorce.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Wonder if there was even a trial of sorts? Three days from arrest to execution.

Sheeesh.

[GreenStormCloud]

5. Three days is plenty of time for confessions. (sarcasm) N/T

[Nuclear Unicorn]

21. I heard she wouldn't return his Steely Dan CD

[shenmue]

2. Mercy

Whatever happened to forgiveness?

[Ed Suspicious]

3. How is it that people who are in charge of the machine gunning don't stop and say, yeah, we

aren't gonna be machine gunning people today? And the people who Un will have to machine gun the machine gunners? How about they say, yeah... I don't think we're gonna be machine gunning these people today either.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. For all we know, their families might also be at risk. Someone that crazy wouldn't stop at

killing and torturing kids in order to get their parents to comply with his commands.

[GreenStormCloud]

7. The families were made to watch the executions.

Then they were sent to labor camps. Survival of an NK labor camp is very rare.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I meant the families of those firing the machine guns. The previous poster had wondered

what would happen if they refused to fire. I would assume that there are "incentives" for following orders to execute large groups of people.

[FSogol]

6. A drastic reaction to Miley Cyrus' performance?

[jberryhill]

8. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

[Ed Suspicious]

12. Wow. Ted Cruz singing on the Youtubez! Nice find.

(there are moments in that video... doppelganger.)

[Turbineguy]

9. Ask any serial killer

real power is the power to kill.

[lpbk2713]

10. If there was a final performance, maybe it was ...

[Lasher]

11. Holy shit, I thought it was satire before I opened the thread!

I wonder how Dennis Rodman feels about his pal now?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. rather puts a damper on reading headlines, eh?

I had the same reaction

[EX500rider]

15. OMG, not the singer of "Excellent Horse-Like Lady"!! n/t

[EX500rider]

16. And in memory of Hyon Song-wol , here's her hit:

"Excellent Horse-Like Lady"

[Rex]

17. Wow, what a workers paradise!

Until you get taken out back and executed for breathing the same air as Dear Leader.

I hate dictators. Un will no doubt turn out to be another murderous thug and nothing more.

[EX500rider]

18. If you read the article..

....he had a General killed by a mortar round. ("mortaring squad"?)

[warrprayer]

19. this defies belief

psychologists would have a field day with this whackjob. Too bad others have to suffer for his mental problems. This no doubt will give other countries an idea of how much this asshole can be trusted.

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. How do we know any of this is true?