Jang, 67, was killed immediately after a special military tribunal convicted him of factionalism, graft and plotting to stage a coup against Kim, the official Korean Central News Agency said yesterday. He was arrested at a Politburo meeting on Dec. 8, where he was stripped of his titles as a four-star general and vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, the highest seat of power in Pyongyang, the capital.
North Korea’s state media, which announced previous demotions and purges in short, belated dispatches or by erasing officials from archives, broadcast Jang’s ouster with photos of the arrest and a detailed treatise of his alleged crimes.
Kim, believed to be about 30 and in his second year as leader after succeeding his father, Kim Jong Il, chose to publicly eliminate a relative with 40 years of experience in policy making to signal that he alone controls the regime without oversight by any “regents,†said Klinger, now a senior research fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.
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