North Korean leader Kim PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
is continuing to rule with an iron fist, having ordered the execution of about 15 bigwigs so far this year, according to an assessment by South Korean intelligence agents, a politician who attended a closed briefing said.
Shin Kyung-min, a politician with the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, told a handful of news hounds that he had been given the information by the South Korean National Intelligence Service.
CNN cannot independently confirm the executions. The nature of the intelligence supporting the National Intelligence Service allegations was also not immediately clear. North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-Un ordered the execution of 15 bigwigs this year, including several who complained about the young leader's policies, South Korea's intelligence agency said Wednesday.Those executed included two vice minister-level officials, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing politicians who attended a briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Both were punished for opposing or complaining about Kim's directives, the politicians said, adding a vice forestry minister was executed for complaining about Kim's forestation plan.
As well as the 15 bigwigs, the NIS said four members of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra, with which Kim's wife, Ri Sol-Ju, had once been a singer, were executed in March.
The NIS said they were executed by firing squad on charges of spying.