Jang Song-thaek shortly before his execution over the alleged plot (KCNA)
Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, reportedly ordered the execution of his uncle and mentor in December 2013 after learning that Jang Song-thaek had proposed to China that it support a coup to replace Mr Kim with his half-brother, Kim Jong-nam.
Mr Jang met in Beijing with Hu Jintao, the then-Chinese president, in August 2012, according to reports in Japan's Nikkei Asian Review. Mr Jang had cultivated close business and political ties with China and was trusted by Beijing.
Sources told the newspaper that Mr Jang proposed a plot to overthrow Mr Kim, with Beijing's assistance, and to replace him with his oldest half-brother.
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3 comments:
Sounds a little thin. Seems that if China wanted to overthrow Kim Jong-Un, they'd have just gone and done it. This wouldn't preclude Kim from believing it though.
Either way you can bet that Nork/Chinese relations are in the toilet.
What I find interesting is that this story is being leaked now. Who is doing the leaking .... the Chinese?
WNU,
It seems that Hu Jintao relinquished his posts in China to Xi at almost the same time. Though that transfer of power was considered a peaceable one between the two the, timing of Jang's fall from power and the transfer is notable.
I would say it's the Chinese doing the leaking. Everyone is concentrating on Kim and his tenure in N Korea not realizing there very serious events happening in China just below the public surface.
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