Jang Song-thaek is seemingly relaxed while talking to other people folding his hands behind his back by the side of Kim Jong-un at the time when visiting rollerblade link. (From KCNA on November 4, 2012)
The reason for purging Jang Song-thaek, “Violation of sole leadership system”
But the sole dictatorship of North Korea is not a pushover. Abnormal happenings and Jang’s arrogance, which I have noticed even though I have lived in the outside world after defecting from North Korea, suddenly ended just in two years.
North Koreans must have felt that Jang had got extraordinary power and abnormal changes were happening by watching Jang on media. Jang’s posture that he seemed to have equal to or greater authority than the top leader must have given the impression of impiousness and impiety to Kim Jong-un.
North Korean government released the news on, “the special military trial by the state security agency,” where they revealed the process and the reason of the purge of Jang Song-thaek. The news reported: “Jang Song-thaek had often been in close attendance on our revered Marshall on the occasion of on-site guidance. He abused this close relationship with our Marshall and tried to make his own fantasy of being a special figure by showing off that he ranked with the heads of revolution.”
While Jang Song-thaek tried to show off his presence as a power man through media, it became rather fatal evidence that he challenged the sole dictatorship system. The system has the prerequisite that there should not be any compatibility with the top leader. (ISHIMARU Jiro/Paek Chang-ryong)
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* Editor’s notes on North Korean reporters
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