Jang had been advising Kim since December 2011 when Kim first took office Two police officers interrupted the meeting to confront Jang As everyone watched the officers arrested and removed Jang from the building After he was arrested the government run Korean Central News Agency KCNA made a broadcast The broadcast accused Jang of criminal acts It accused Jang of being corrupt taking drugs and other crimes KCNA blamed Jang for poor management of North Korea's finances The news agency said Jang only pretended to be loyal to Kim Days later Jang's jailers brought him to a North Korean military academy There he was forced to watch the execution of two of his top assistants The executions were so brutal that Jang fainted Days later he was killed in the way same
Jang Song Thaek and Kim Jong Un appeared at a military parade together in 2012 Kim had watched the officers arrest Jang Foreign government experts suspected that Kim had ordered the arrests and executions Since becoming North Korea's leader Kim had purged numerous people He feared that they might plot against him So in some respects what happened to Jang was not surprising What was surprising however was that Kim had done this to his uncle
CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT LEADER Kim Jong Un is the third member of his family Ito lead North Korea The other two were his grandfather Kim Il Sung and father Kim Jong Il Kim Il Sung was born in 1912 As a young man he became a Communist He fought the Japanese who had ruled Korea since 1910 In late 1940 Kim went to the Soviet Union and lived in a military camp He spent the remainder of World War II 1939 1945 in the Soviet Union The Juche Tower contains 25 550 blocks marking the number of days in Kim Il Sung's life
