It is a story that paints the picture of North Korea as a brutal dictatorship, willing to go to any lengths to suppress possible rivalry to the supreme leader.
Yet reports in Chinese media which suggested Kim Jong-un had his uncle stripped naked and fed to 120 ravenous dogs also appear to have been false.
The news first emerged from a Hong Kong tabloid, Wen Wei Po, which described how Jang Song Thaek and five of his aides were thrown in a cage with hounds that had been starved for three days and subjected to “death by dogs”.
Kim was supposed to have watched on throughout the hour-long ordeal, flanked by scores of North Korean officials – but the source of the account is named as Pyongyang Choi Seongho, who the US blogger Trevor Powell pointed out is a China-based satirist and “online personality”.
The story was nonetheless reported by the English-language Singapore daily Straits Times, and from there quickly made headlines around the western world. Full story...
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Yet reports in Chinese media which suggested Kim Jong-un had his uncle stripped naked and fed to 120 ravenous dogs also appear to have been false.
The news first emerged from a Hong Kong tabloid, Wen Wei Po, which described how Jang Song Thaek and five of his aides were thrown in a cage with hounds that had been starved for three days and subjected to “death by dogs”.
Kim was supposed to have watched on throughout the hour-long ordeal, flanked by scores of North Korean officials – but the source of the account is named as Pyongyang Choi Seongho, who the US blogger Trevor Powell pointed out is a China-based satirist and “online personality”.
The story was nonetheless reported by the English-language Singapore daily Straits Times, and from there quickly made headlines around the western world. Full story...
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