Entire family of Kim Jong Un's executed uncle put to death

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party politburo in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) December 9, 2013. REUTERS

 The direct relatives of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un's recently executed uncle, have all been put to death upon the orders of the North Korean leader, reports said.

Quoting South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, The Telegraph said entire families closely related to Jang, who was purged by the Pyongyang regime in December for allegedly plotting its overthrow, were executed including children and grandchildren.

File: Jang song-thaek, Chief of the Central Administrative Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, exits car as he arrives at the Ziguangge building of Zhongnanhai, the central government compound, in Beijing, August 17, 2012. REUTERS

Among those allegedly executed were Jon Yong-jin, Jang's brother-in-law and the country's ambassador to Cuba, and Jang Yong-chol, Jang's nephew and ambassador to Malaysia, the anonymous sources told the UK newspaper.

The killings were reported to have taken place after Jang's own execution on December 12 and "mean that no traces of him should be left", a source told Yonhap.

Kim Jong Un's former mentor Song Thaek was accused of a number of crimes against the state, including plotting a coup, misappropriating resources, womanising, abusing his position of power and 'dreaming different dreams' to the regime.

South Korean soldiers walk past a television showing reports on the execution of Jang Song Thaek, who was North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle, at a railway station in Seoul December 13, 2013. North Korea said on Friday that Jang, previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed for treason, the biggest upheaval since the death of Kim's father two years ago. REUTERS

 North Korea had stunned the world by announcing the execution of the man once seen as the dictator's political regent.

His death marks the biggest political upheaval since the 30-year-old inherited power.

Song Thaek is the husband of Jong Un's biological aunt, the sister of his father Kim Jong Il. She was also reported dead under mysterious circumstances a few days after Thaek's execution.

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