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The Purge of Jang Song-thaek: Kim Jong-un Consolidates His Power As Top Officials Purged in Largest State Show Trials Since Kim Il Sung’s Purge of the Domestic Faction in 1955

Possible turmoil in the DPRK as reports are swirling about the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un’s uncle and nominal second-in-command of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A full-scale purge is believed to be underway as thirty-year-old Kim Jong Un seeks to eliminate factionalism within North Korea to consolidate his nascent rule […]

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