Kim Jong Un executes uncle's relatives: report

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past his uncle Jang Song Thaek (left) in this February 2012 photo. Jang would be executed by the North Korean government in December. North Korea announced days before the execution that the uncle was corrupt, a drug abuser, a gambler, a womanizer and generally lead a 'dissolute and depraved life.'


The family of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un clearly doesn't get any special treatment.


The iron fisted ruler ordered the execution of all blood relatives of uncle Jang Song Theak, who was killed by the government last year, according to reports.


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'All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children,' an anonymous source told the South Korean news agency Yonhap on Sunday.


Among those slain were Jang's sister, Jang Kye Sun, Pyongyang's the ambassador to Cuba, Jon Yong Jin, a nephew of Jang and his two sons, the outlet reported.


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It is unclear exactly when these executions took place or how Kim exacted the chilling killings.


Reports had swirled last year that Kim had his uncle eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs, but that was later debunked.


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'Some relatives were shot to death by pistol in front of other people if they resisted while being dragged out of their apartment homes,' a separate source told Yonhap.


The 67-year-old Jang, former vice chairman of the country's National Defense Commission and once considered the second most powerful leader in North Korea, had been a mentor to the 30-year-old strongman.


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But Kim - who took power in 2011 - labeled his uncle a traitor and ordered him dead late last year. Jang had been tried and executed as a 'traitor to the nation for all ages.' The announcement also declared the diminutive dictator's uncle to be a 'despicable political careerist and trickster,' 'human scum' and 'worse than a dog.'


North Korea has been slammed for its deplorable human rights record. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman made waves for trying to improve relations between the hostile nation and the U.S. in an ongoing campaign of 'basketball diplomacy.'


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The unwanted ambassadorship was a complete failure as Rodman serenaded Kim on his birthday and he conducted an interview with CNN drunk.


Kim reportedly spared some of Jang's in-laws, such as the wife of the Malaysian ambassardor. Those who weren't executed were exiled to remove villages, Yonhap reported.


idejohn@nydailynews.com


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