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4 days ago · The execution of Jang Song-Thaek, the most prominent pro-China voice in the upper echelons of North Korean politics, signaled an additional chilling of the relationship. Henceforth, any North Korean official who counseled rapprochement with Beijing risked association with the purged Jang.
3 days ago · In December 2013 Kim executed his uncle Jang Song-Thaek, saying that he had “removed the scum” from the KWP. Jang was a member of Kim Jong Il’s inner circle and had served as a virtual regent for the younger Kim after his father’s death.
2 days ago · In December 2013, the party experienced its first open inner struggle in decades with the purge of Jang Song-thaek. The party has seen somewhat of a revival under Kim Jong Un, with more frequent meetings. There have been two conferences, after a gap of 44 years, and a congress between 2010 and 2016.
3 days ago · Photographs of Kim’s uncle Jang Song-Thaek standing directly behind Kim Jong-Un in Kim Jong Il’s funeral cortege led many in China and the West to conclude that Jang would exert significant influence within the new regime.
4 days ago · On February 29, he released the song "We Are The B" for the drama's soundtrack, along with Jinwoon, Kang So-ra and Kim Ji-soo. In May 2012, Jinyoung and fellow trainee Jay B debuted as the duo JJ Project with the single album Bounce.
4 days ago · Most importantly, since the purge of Jang Song Thaek in 2013, DPRK propagandists have also been deleting or revising their own material at unprecedented levels, meaning no open-source records exist of previous DPRK propaganda output.
3 days ago · The atlas allows users to search the map using the latest publicly available satellite imagery of any specific point or area as they are searching. Go to the Atlas >. 38 North is a program of the Stimson Center dedicated to providing the best possible analysis of events in and around North Korea.
