Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad'

[karter]

Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports.

Hyon Song-wol, a singer, rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader, is said to have been arrested on Aug 17 with 11 others for violating laws against pornography.


The reports in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper indicate that Hyon, a singer with the Unhasu Orchestra, was among those arrested on August 17 for violating domestic laws on pornography.

All 12 were machine-gunned three days later, with other members of North Korea's most famous pop groups and their immediate families forced to watch. The onlookers were then sent to prison camps, victims of the regime's assumption of guilt by association, the reports stated.

“They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on,” said a Chinese source reported in the newspaper.
Hyon's band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including "Footsteps of Soldiers," "I Love Pyongyang," "She is a Discharged Soldier" and "We are Troops of the Party." Her popularity reportedly peaked in 2005 with the song "Excellent Horse-Like Lady."


The 12 who were executed were singers, musicians or dancers with the Hyon's band,, the Unhasu Orchestra or the Wanghaesan Light Music Band and were accused of making videos of themselves performing sex acts and then selling the recordings.
The reports stated that both groups have been disbanded as a result of the scandal.
Some of the musicians were also found to have bibles when they were detained and all were treated as political dissidents.
Kim Jong-un, who became leader of North Korea after the sudden death of his father in December 2011, is believed to have met Hyon about 10 years ago and struck up a relationship.
His father, Kim Jong-il, did not approve of the relationship and ordered him to break it off. Hyon subsequently married an officer in the North Korean military and reportedly had a baby, although there are suggestions that Hyon continued to see Kim after her marriage.
Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before marriage and one theory is that Ri objected to the continuing high profile of her husband's former girlfriend.


North Korea's Communist dictator reportedly purged his own step-mother, Kim Ok, from her post as a senior official in the Workers' Party Finance and Accounting Department as he sought to tighten his grip on power within the country.
She was luckier than Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, who was executed with a mortar round in October 2012.
Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death.
On the explicit orders of Kim Jong-un to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair," according to South Korean media, Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and "obliterated."

An expert on North Korean affairs believes the singer was executed for "political reasons."
"If these people had only made pornographic videos, then it is simply not believable that their punishment was execution," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and an authority on North Korean affairs, told The Daily Telegraph.
"They could have been made to disappear into the prison system there instead.
"There is a political reason behind this," he said, suggesting that the groups may have been leaning towards a rival faction in Pyongyang's shadowy political world.
"Or, as Kim's wife once belonged to the same group, it is possible that these executions are more about Kim's wife," Professor Shigemura added.

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ing-squad.html

what's wrong with them omg

THEY USED TO SING PATRIOTIC SONGS
HOW CAN YOU JUST....WOW

[Eoin247]

Saw this a few days ago and TBH it's not surprising that this happened. Of course the problem that is NK is largely ignored by the west. NK is going to end up being a much bigger problem in 50 years time I can guarantee.

[karter]

Her video popular video:

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i saw this too and i actually can't believe thing like this happen in the world, it just sounds like something you'd hear about in a historical textbook. something like this prob won't even be known in future though. i remember when his dad died and they were talking about how this woman (hyon song-wol) was kim jong-un's lover that his dad tried to keep him away from but once his dad died he took the first opportunity to get her back THEN HE ******* EXECUTES HER??????

[MKR&*42]

and their immediate families forced to watch

Oh my God.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Saw this a few days ago and TBH it's not surprising that this happened. Of course the problem that is NK is largely ignored by the west. NK is going to end up being a much bigger problem in 50 years time I can guarantee.

North Korea is a tinpot country with an army that's still using Soviet weapons from 50 years ago, I doubt even in 50 years (by which time the regime will probably have collapsed) that they'll have today's technology.

As for the story, well what can you say - a nightmare come true.

[karter]

Even their music industry seems 50 years behind

[Ardemax]

After reading Escape From Camp 14 (highly recommended by me: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Camp-...e+from+camp+14) I'm actually not surprised.

There are truly greater evils happening right now in North Korea and it's such a shame the West just brushes it under the carpet. We have more of a reason to invade NK than Syria.