Report: North Korea executes official by flamethrower

[DonViejo]

Michael Winter, USA TODAY

As part of a second purge of top North Koreans following the execution of leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, 11 high-ranking officials have been imprisoned or put to death, including a security chief "burned alive" by a flamethrower, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday.

An additional 100 lower-ranking Workers Party officials were fired, an unidentified source told The Chosun Ilbo, while a third round of purges will target regional supporters of Kim's powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek, who was executed in December as "a traitor" after being convicted of "anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts."

In a separate report, the newspaper reported that North Korea intends to execute 200 high-ranking officials loyal to Jang and that about 1,000 family members might be interred in concentration camps.

Jang's elder sister, her husband, Jon Yong Jin, who was North Korea's ambassador to Cuba, and their son-in-law, who headed a trading company, were among those executed Sunday, according to the South Korean report, which could not be independently verified.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/08/north-korea-offical-executed-flamethrower/7475895/

[Bluenorthwest]

1. But up until the moment he burst into flames he had more freedom than Mike Huckabee

So there's that.

[truebluegreen]

2. GMTA.

[penultimate]

3. Didn't the same thing happen to the Baltimore mayor a few years back?

[CFLDem]

4. And good men stand in silence. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I would like to have another source for that story.

Weeks after the story that his uncle had been eaten alive by dogs, it was debunked.


Kim Jong-un ‘uncle fed to 120 dogs’ story begun by Chinese satirist
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jongun-uncle-fed-to-120-dogs-story-begun-by-chinese-satirist-9042072.html

[DonViejo]

6. By all means, search for another source and post it here when

you find it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I was about to ask if the flamethrower's name is Fido. n/t

[qazplm]

8. maybe

could be exaggerated, but the fact that it's even plausible shows the insanity of that regime.

[HipChick]

9. do they get a choice? Fire? Water? Hanging?

[EX500rider]

10. Probably a big "wheel of death" they spin.....tick, tick, tick.....tick....lands on "flamethrower"