Posted on 08/28/2013 8:44:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-un's Ex-Girlfriend 'Shot by Firing Squad' Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, reports said Wednesday. Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography and were executed in public three days later. The victims of the atrocity were members of the Unhasu Orchestra as well as singers, musicians and dancers with the Wangjaesan Light Music Band. They were accused of videotaping themselves having sex and selling the videos. The tapes have apparently gone on sale in China as well. A source said some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, and all were treated as political dissidents. Left: This screen capture from North Korean Central TV shows North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un clapping during a concert in Pyongyang on Aug. 8.; Right: Hyun Song-wol sings during a concert in Pyongyang on Aug. 8. Left: This screen capture from North Korean Central TV shows North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un clapping during a concert in Pyongyang on Aug. 8.; Right: Hyun Song-wol sings during a concert in Pyongyang on Aug. 8. Kim met Hyon about a decade ago, before either of them was married. But he was later ordered to break off the relationship by his father Kim Jong-il and she married a soldier. Since then there have been rumors that the two were having an affair. Kim's wife Ri Sol-ju was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before she married him. Whether she had any hand in the executions is unclear. The Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Light Music Band have apparently been disbanded due to the latest scandal. "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," the source said. The source added that all of the families of the executed appear to have been sent to prison camps under North Korea's barbaric principle of guilt by association. Hyon was a singer with the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, which is famous for revolutionary and propaganda songs and one of North Korea's most popular bands. Mun won first place in an international competition in Hungary in 2005 and was decorated by the North Korean state. Kim Jong-un was last year seen at a performance that featured Disney characters and versions of Western songs, stoking hopes that the young leader is more open to ideas from overseas, but that was apparently a misreading. A source said, "Kim Jong-un has been viciously eliminating anyone who he deems a challenge to his authority." The executions "show that he is fixated on consolidating his leadership." |
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Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Had she refused his advances, she would have faced this fate anyway.
He’s lasted his first few years so I expect the mass executions will finally start to really knock the fear into the power structure. I saw a lot of leftists saying the military pulled his strings. But I didn’t think so. I think he’s got it under control and has since shortly after taking over.
What a monster that little creep is.
Hyon Song-wol will Sing-no-more.
I don’t think I could live long in the workers’ paradise.
Novel way of dealing with ex=girlfriends...
What bitter, vitriolic hatred their victims must have for them. I don’t think I can say what I REALLY think of North Korean leaders.
I’m more surprised that I dropped the ball. I was looking at Chosun Ilbo about an hour ago and if I had seen the article I would have posted it. Good cattch on your part.
I'm thinking that kind of fame is not conducive to living a long and happy life.
But apparently not as monstrous as Assad is claimed to be or the US, UK and France would be as eager to attack NK as they do Syria.
I guess there is more democracy in NK than in Syria.
No. Short, glamorous life, followed by a brutal end. Unless you are picked as the despot’s wife as Ri Sol-ju was.
Damn can ya just imagine a gal’s fate, (slowly tortured to death I’m sure), if this Korean midget fish eater ever wound up with a spitter like that broad Monica Bill Clinton was gooberin’ all over on?
Did she tape herself dong it Gangnam style?
I will let you know if I can find out.:-)
“A source said some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, and all were treated as political dissidents.”
That’s probably what really happened and they wanted to destroy her reputation and credibility.
‘Dad made Junior break it off’
She should have been upfront about her wooden leg.
No dictator wants to have an old squeeze machine-gunned.
That's a clue to what the real story is.
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