{UAH} North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un 'poisoned his aunt'
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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un 'poisoned his aunt'
Defector claims that Kim Jong-un ordered his bodyguards to kill his aunt six months after executing her husband
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By David Blair
4:30PM BST 12 May 2015
North Korea's "supreme leader" ordered his bodyguards to poison his aunt, according to a defector.
Kim Jong-un, who inherited the leadership of Asia's Stalinist state at the age of 30, appears to preside over a court riven by murder and intrigue. In 2013,he executed his uncle by marriage, Jang Sung-taek, and then denounced his victim as "human scum".
Jang was married to Kim Kyong-hui, an aunt of Mr Kim. After her husband's death, Mrs Kim disappeared from public view. A multitude of reports claimed variously that she had committed suicide, suffered a heart attack or succumbed to a stroke. In February, South Korea's intelligence service reported that Mrs Kim was still alive.
But a defector from the regime – going by the name "Mr Park" – claims that Mrs Kim suffered death by poisoning last May on the orders of her nephew.
"Kim Jong-un ordered his aunt, Kim Kyong-hui to be killed," the defector told CNN. "Only his bodyguard unit - Unit 974 - knew this. Now senior officials also know she was poisoned."
This purge also saw the deaths of 30 aides of Mrs Kim and her husband, according to Mr Park. Some were supposedly executed by firing squads armed not with rifles but machine guns.
How Mr Park came to know of Mrs Kim's alleged fate is unclear. The position he held in the regime before his defection was not disclosed. Nor is it clear whether he was speaking from first-hand knowledge - or simply repeating hearsay.
But the regime flaunted the downfall and execution of Jang. He was a mentor to the young North Korean dictator and one of the regime's most influential figures until he was publicly purged.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) described Jang as "a traitor to the nation for all ages"
South Korean intelligence believes that Mr Kim has ordered the killing of 15 senior officials so far this year.
North Korea said the claim that Mr Kim had killed his aunt was "malicious slander".
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