Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad'

[Agramon]

Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad'
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.

Hyon Song-wol, a singer, rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader, is said to have been arrested on Aug 17 with 11 others for violating laws against pornography.

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.

 Hyon's band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including "Footsteps of Soldiers," "I Love Pyongyang," "She is a Discharged Soldier" and "We are Troops of the Party." Her popularity reportedly peaked in 2005 with the song "Excellent Horse-Like Lady."

The 12 who were executed were singers, musicians or dancers with the Hyon's band,, the Unhasu Orchestra or the Wanghaesan Light Music Band and were accused of making videos of themselves performing sex acts and then selling the recordings.

The reports stated that both groups have been disbanded as a result of the scandal.

Some of the musicians were also found to have bibles when they were detained and all were treated as political dissidents.

Kim Jong-un, who became leader of North Korea after the sudden death of his father in December 2011, is believed to have met Hyon about 10 years ago and struck up a relationship.

His father, Kim Jong-il, did not approve of the relationship and ordered him to break it off. Hyon subsequently married an officer in the North Korean military and reportedly had a baby, although there are suggestions that Hyon continued to see Kim after her marriage.

Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before marriage and one theory is that Ri objected to the continuing high profile of her husband's former girlfriend.

North Korea's Communist dictator reportedly purged his own step-mother, Kim Ok, from her post as a senior official in the Workers' Party Finance and Accounting Department as he sought to tighten his grip on power within the country.

She was luckier than Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, who was executed with a mortar round in October 2012.

Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death.

On the explicit orders of Kim Jong-un to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair," according to South Korean media, Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and "obliterated."

 An expert on North Korean affairs believes the singer was executed for "political reasons."

"If these people had only made pornographic videos, then it is simply not believable that their punishment was execution," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and an authority on North Korean affairs, told The Daily Telegraph.

"They could have been made to disappear into the prison system there instead.

"There is a political reason behind this," he said, suggesting that the groups may have been leaning towards a rival faction in Pyongyang's shadowy political world.

"Or, as Kim's wife once belonged to the same group, it is possible that these executions are more about Kim's wife," Professor Shigemura added.

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[Nonsensei]

I don't even know what to say. I don't even want to hear about North Korea because nothing will ever be done about it.

[hillbillyatheist]

so long as they didn't gas those people, right Obama? otherwise its time to bomb them.

[Colanth]

An expert on North Korean affairs believes the singer was executed for "political reasons."

Really?  Water is wet?

This leads me to wonder what his father REALLY died of.  An overdose of filial ambition?

[Hijiri Byakuren]

Not to sound callous, but does anything North Korea does honestly surprise anyone these days?

[Triple Nine]

Somehow Syria is a bigger problem than this though.

[WitchSabrina]

I don't even know what to say. I don't even want to hear about North Korea because nothing will ever be done about it.

This ^^^
 :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

[Brian37]

Sick shit.

[LikelyToBreak]

hillbillyatheist wrote:

so long as they didn't gas those people, right Obama? otherwise its time to bomb them.

Oh how silly of you.  :rollin:   They don't have any oil.  #-o

[Thumpalumpacus]

Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before marriage

[overheard in the Beneficent Leader's private quarters]

KJU: So, what's on TV tonight?
RSJ: Well, we've got Best Korea's Got Talent!, and --"
cellphone signals text-message, KJU reads and quickly slides his phone shut
RSJ: And who was that?
KJU: That was Ben-E, he wanted to know if we wanted to go to the opera tonight.
RSJ: Ben-E?  Opera?
KJU: Well --
RSJ: Benny hates opera, remember when we asked him and Jun-yo to The Pirates of Pyongyang? He pratically vomited.
KJU: Well, he asked, and --
RSJ: Let me see that!
KJU: What?
RSJ grabs phone
RSJ, reading text: "lol, u still got that anchor on ur azz? When u want a reel woman, hit me up, baby."
KJU: Uh --
RSJ: What the fuck is that bitch doing in your inbox?
KJU: Baby, I can --
RSJ: Don't you "baby" me, motherfucker.  What the fuck you doing with that skank?
KJU: You don't understand, it's ju --
RSJ: Oh, I understand all right.  You knockin' boots with that ho.  You think I'm stupid?  That shit gonna stop!
KJU: Baby, I --
RSJ: Don't you "baby' me, motherfucker!  You need to do somethin' about that bitch.
KJU: I've already had her drafted into the People's Army!
RSJ: Well that shit ain't workin', now is it?  You need to kill that bitch, Kim.  You hear me?
KJU: I can have her sent to Canada as a spy?
RSJ: What the fuck do you not understand in "kill that bitch"?!
KJU: But --
RSJ: But nothin', you ain't getting any twerkin' until she's dead and gone!  I mean it!
KJU: Twerkin'?!  You'd take that away?!
RSJ: You're goddamned straight I would.  Kill that bitch.
KJU: Okay ... okay.  
RSJ: I want her family enslaved as well.
KJU: We've already got a full labor conscrip --
RSJ: Would you shut the fuck up?  I want them digging foxholes!
KJU:  Yes, dear.  Anything else?
RSJ: Can we have a spinach salad with our spaghetti tonight?

[Youssuf Ramadan]

Somehow Syria is a bigger problem than this though.

This execution aside, I don't know if Syria is a bigger problem than North Korea.... is Syria likely to pose a real threat to the west?  :-k

[SGOS]

Not to sound callous, but does anything North Korea does honestly surprise anyone these days?

It's like it's government is actually made up of just one guy, and he's insane.

[Jason78]

Somehow Syria is a bigger problem than this though.

This execution aside, I don't know if Syria is a bigger problem than North Korea.... is Syria likely to pose a real threat to the west?  :-k

Well the Norks aren't tossing around chemical weapons yet.

[Smartmarzipan]

I don't even know what to say. I don't even want to hear about North Korea because nothing will ever be done about it.

Unfortunately, that's true. North Korea has been abusing, torturing, killing, and brainwashing it's people for fucking decades. We hear about it constantly, but nothing is ever done. There's some sanctions here, some strong words there, and then the regime goes back to wreaking havoc on its populace again. They ordered some guy to be "obliterated" by mortars? That's fucking crazy!

[SilentFutility]

I don't even know what to say. I don't even want to hear about North Korea because nothing will ever be done about it.

Unfortunately, that's true. North Korea has been abusing, torturing, killing, and brainwashing it's people for fucking decades. We hear about it constantly, but nothing is ever done. There's some sanctions here, some strong words there, and then the regime goes back to wreaking havoc on its populace again. They ordered some guy to be "obliterated" by mortars? That's fucking crazy!

He was lucky. It sounds sick but he really was, his death was quick.

North Korea still operates gulags in which people are treated as badly as in forced-labour concentration camps from WW2 except they usually die off themselves rather than being gassed...