You can let domestic enemies in the government and press destroy you and your agenda, or you can have them shot.
Feeding them to wild dogs is a bit over the top though.
This is the way government has always worked for thousands of years.
American leftists beware.
He lately has a problem in getting enough money to spread around. International climate is seriously deteriorating. Many countries stop doing any business with them. N. Korea used to earn hard currency by renting their workers as slave labor. They toiled in sweatshop factories and construction sites. They are now being sent back.
To make up for the shortfall, he is leaning hard on remaining N. Korean outfit overseas to meet the raised quota of hard currency revenue. This has become a factor in some recent defection of N. Korean officials or elites. They can't meet the assigned quota and start to fear that they will be recalled and punished.