The DPRK executed Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of the country's leader Kim Jong-un and the former deputy chairman of the State Defense Committee. reported this on December 12 Agence France-Presse , citing the state news agency KCNA.

According to KCNA, the “traitor” Jang Song Thaek was executed on December 12 following a short military trial.

Jang Song Taek's arrest was officially announced on December 9. As KCNA wrote, he was accused of “criminal acts that shock the imagination”: trying to act behind Kim Jong-un’s back, corruption and a dissolute lifestyle. At the same time, it became known that Chan Song Thaek was deprived of his post in the State Defense Committee and the position of head of the organizational department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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After Kim Jong-un became the leader of the DPRK in December 2011, Jang Song Thaek was considered the second-in-command in the state. The official had been the head of the organizational department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea since 2008, and then became deputy chairman of the State Defense Committee, the highest military body of the DPRK. Previously, this committee was led by Kim Jong Il, and then by his heir.

Jang Song Thaek's resignation was the largest event of its kind since Kim Jong-un came to power. The South Korean Yonhap agency also reported the execution of Jang Song Thaek's assistants. Experts believe that the arrest of the uncle of the DPRK leader was the beginning of a large-scale political cleansing in the country.

North Korea executes Kim Jong-un's uncle