Don't Stand In Kim Jong Un's Way

[Tennesseer]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle was stripped naked, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs, according to a newspaper with close ties to China's ruling Communist Party.

Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po reported that Jang and his five closest aides were set upon by 120 hunting hounds which had been starved for five days. 

Kim and his brother Kim Jong Chol supervised the one-hour ordeal along with 300 other officials, according to Wen Wei Po. The newspaper added that Jang and other aides were "completely eaten up."

Kim Jong Un's executed uncle was eaten alive by 120 hungry dogs: report

I wonder if these dogs will now be eaten by Kim Jong Un.

[The Captain]

At first I thought this was a sick, sick, joke but it is (unconfirmed) from a news source normally friendly with N. Korea.

Wow, how totally horrible.

[mmhmm]

Makes you shudder, doesn't it?  For all the whining and complaining we do here in the US, we oughta be darned glad we're not in North Korea!

[billisonboard]

Wonder if it is true.  The detail is excellent: 120 dogs, starved 5 days, 300 observers, one hour ordeal.  Does make for a great story.

[wvugurl26]

I would imagine if you did such an awful thing that in part you intend it as a warning to others under your rule that they better toe the line and get with the program. And to do so, you'd have to publicize it.

[billisonboard]

Jan 3, 2014 10:32:40 GMT -5 wvugurl26 said:

I would imagine if you did such an awful thing that in part you intend it as a warning to others under your rule that they better toe the line and get with the program. And to do so, you'd have to publicize it.

Here is one source for information on the newspaper that actually published this story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Wei_Po

[busymom]

Wow! Gives a whole new meaning to "going to the dogs"!

[Value Buy]

Jan 3, 2014 11:14:43 GMT -5 busymom said:

Wow! Gives a whole new meaning to "going to the dogs"!

I was thinking more in terms of our Federal government death panels for the elderly here in the states.

[mmhmm]

Jan 3, 2014 10:17:00 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Wonder if it is true.  The detail is excellent: 120 dogs, starved 5 days, 300 observers, one hour ordeal.  Does make for a great story.

The article said it couldn't be confirmed.  That's not unusual for North Korea.  Still, given the background on their "leader", I wouldn't be surprised.

[mmhmm]

Jan 3, 2014 11:16:36 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 3, 2014 11:14:43 GMT -5 busymom said:

Wow! Gives a whole new meaning to "going to the dogs"!

I was thinking more in terms of our Federal government death panels for the elderly here in the states.

What "death panels" are those, Value Buy?

[sesfw]

This might be a prelude to Kim Jong Un's death.

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap"

This is horrible and sickening

[workpublic]

and we're supposed to negotiate with that?

rodman better watch his funky ass.

[busymom]

Wasn't this the same guy who tied down some poor guy, and aimed a missile at him to kill him? Or did his dad do that?

Makes the death penalty in our country seem more sane...

[Value Buy]

Jan 3, 2014 11:22:42 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Jan 3, 2014 10:17:00 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Wonder if it is true.  The detail is excellent: 120 dogs, starved 5 days, 300 observers, one hour ordeal.  Does make for a great story.

The article said it couldn't be confirmed.  That's not unusual for North Korea.  Still, given the background on their "leader", I wouldn't be surprised.

I read where this was pro Chinese news site, so I would take it with a grain of salt.

If true, though, I would imagine more than a few of the 300 onlookers, had a moment where they wondered, but for the grace of God, go I

Could have been an eye opener for them.

[workpublic]

worse than sadaam did. i mean he just shot his relatives.

like the saying goes "you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives"

[jkapp]

I'm thinking Kim Jong Un needs to lay off watching mafia movies for a while...sheesh!  Those movies are for entertainment KJU, they're not a "how-to" series!

[gooddecisions]

I'm finding this story a little hard to believe. 120 dogs just doesn't ring true to me. If each dog were about 3 feet long and 1 foot wide, that would be 360 square feet. Even if they are squeezed together like sardines trying to get a piece of a single man, they would take up way more space than any cage I've ever seen. I guess if there were 300 observers, it could be done in a bull stadium or something, but definitely not a "cage" like the article suggests.

 It sounds like something the writers would have Joffrey do on King of Thrones

[Tennesseer]

Jan 3, 2014 12:00:44 GMT -5 gooddecisions said:

I'm finding this story a little hard to believe. 120 dogs just doesn't ring true to me. If each dog were about 3 feet long and 1 foot wide, that would be 360 square feet. Even if they are squeezed together like sardines trying to get a piece of a single man, they would take up way more space than any cage I've ever seen. I guess if there were 300 observers, it could be done in a bull stadium or something, but definitely not a "cage" like the article suggests.

 It sounds like something the writers would have Joffrey do on King of Thrones

You could put the six people ìn a very large room and release the dogs.  The dogs would attack the men and each other for the food.  The observers could very well be outside looking though barred windows all around the room.  Easy to do.

[billisonboard]

Regardless of whether the story is true or not, if the newspaper that chose to publish this report is a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, wonder what the goal is for demonizing the guy?

[gooddecisions]

I need more details. If the caged man were taken to the location of the dogs, the cage set down in the (large) dog pit and then opened from a distance, it might work. I remember reading a chapter of Silence of the Lambs where the men were taken to a hog pen and eaten alive- bones and all but there were not 120 hogs. It only took 10 to get the job done in minutes. I don't see it working too well if 120 starving dogs had to be transported to the location of the prisoner. How many trucks would that even take?

[Tennesseer]

Jan 3, 2014 12:51:05 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Regardless of whether the story is true or not, if the newspaper that chose to publish this report is a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, wonder what the goal is for demonizing the guy?

Probably a message to Un the world thinks you are an ìdiot and even China thinks so too so watch your step.  Chinese support ìs waning-fast.

[zibazinski]

It was being discussed here in Cayman Island by the shop workers. 

[billisonboard]

Jan 3, 2014 13:08:00 GMT -5 @sroo4 said:

Jan 3, 2014 12:51:05 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Regardless of whether the story is true or not, if the newspaper that chose to publish this report is a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, wonder what the goal is for demonizing the guy?

Because they are not demonizing KJ,  they are highlighting the good he's doing by ridding the 'enemy of the people'


Remember in his country and any other dictatorship/communist society,  the leadership is always right.  

This was not picked up from a North Korean nor Chinese newspaper. It was reported in a Hong Kong newspaper. Why was it reported in a place that would clearly be picked up by the Western press and with the detail that it was? From the link in the OP:

The report may be a sign of the struggle between those in the party who want to remain engaged with North Korea and those who would like to distance themselves from Kim's regime.

Clearly written for Western consumption and with the knowledge that it would assessed by Western standards.

[mmhmm]

China is N. Korea's only ally.  Since Kim Jong Un came to power, China has discovered he doesn't take suggestions well, and takes orders even less well.  To make it simple:  He doesn't cooperate and do what China wants him to do.  China has been reticent about this distressing turn of events because they don't like the idea of a high level of "troubles" on their northern border.  Still, there is a very strong push in China to kick this guy to the curb.  Who knows what they'll do?  He's definitely a fly in their ointment, though.

[zibazinski]

Doesn't it just suck when puppets start manipulating their own strings?

[billisonboard]

The image in American minds of 120 starving dogs munching on Uncle Jang's bones certainly makes it harder to protest the day when we have the Chinese Army sitting directly on the other side of the DMZ.

[DVM gone riding]

Yeah the south and America may just say lessor of two evils and encourage china to go in and gain control. I don't think China would do it without the explicit ok even if not totally spelled of the USA. Makes you wish we had just fixed it right the first time and wiped them out with the big guns.

[8 Bit WWBG]

Maybe the Uncle always knew this day was coming.

Or, he could be on a beach in South America right now, with all the others who have mysteriously vanished throughout history.