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Showing Original Post only (View all)Whoa...if this is true then N. Korea is out of control... [View all]
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/Report_N.htmlReport: Was Kim Jong Un's uncle fed alive to dogs?
A report from a Chinese newspaper says that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, executed his uncle by feeding him stripped and naked to starved dogs, according to several media reports.
Several other news organizations were circulating the story, but none appears to have verified the version independently.
The Straits Times, which covers Asia, published a story Dec. 24 that the execution of Jang Song Thaek, who was the number two man in North Korea, was a horrifying scene. The newspaper based its story on Dec. 12 account published in the Hong Kong based publication, Wen Wei Po., which often serves as a mouthpiece for Beijing officials. According to the report, Jang was not killed by firing squad.
Rather: "he was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs." The process took up to an hour and Jong Un supervised it, according to the account.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/Report_N.html#1wQVSt0ZFtgtjIiT.99
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Not just the uncle, the uncle and 5 aides. We may never know if this is true.
stevenleser
Jan 2014
#25
I was told he threw his uncle into a shark tank. wait. no...that's not it.
Pretzel_Warrior
Jan 2014
#9
I don't know how true it is, but it does help boost his scary factor as a dictator if you believe it
herding cats
Jan 2014
#21
I highly doubt this. Why go to all that trouble when a single bullet accomplishes the same thing?
Nye Bevan
Jan 2014
#22
Yes, it's silly to think a dictator would waste money by requesting impractical things
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#28
The uncle and 5 aides were executed at once. That is only 20 dogs per criminal.
FarCenter
Jan 2014
#37
The reports I've read said "probably machine gun", so I suspect it's not true.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jan 2014
#42