Kim Jong-Un's Ex-Girlfriend Reportedly Executed By Firing Squad

[MerryBlooms]

North Korean singer Hyon Song-wol, known as the ex-girlfriend of the reclusive state's leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly been executed by a firing squad, major South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports.

Hyon and others were reportedly arrested on Aug. 17 for violating laws against pornography and publicly executed on the 20th.


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[darkangel218]

1. Damn..

[Sunlei]

2. They place the entire families, and orchestras, bands in work- deathcamps & make them watch

A source told Chosun Ilbo that Hyon and the head of the orchestra "were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on."

[MerryBlooms]

3. Sadistic shit. :( n/t

[Skidmore]

5. Rodman's BFF is my first thought.

[snappyturtle]

60. Have you seen HBO "Vice"? I saw snippets of it about

Rodman's trip to North Korea. Very interesting footage. NOT
complimentary to NK. In the video it's admitted that what
Rodman et. al. were shown was obviously all a set up as to
what the NK gov't wanted them to see.

[Scuba]

4. Too bad they don't have oil. Then we'd be compelled to take Kim out for humanitarian reasons.

[Orrex]

7. Oh the other hand, if they DID have oil...

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then any legitimate humanitarian undertaking would be ridiculed and dismissed as a plot to seize control of that oil.

Cuts both ways, alas.

[Scuba]

8. Yeah, cause there's nothing more humanitarian than missiles and bombs.

[Orrex]

18. Hey, I don't set the policy

But if past reality is any indication, then I think that my assessment is accurate.

[VanillaRhapsody]

51. I think missles and bombs were humanitarian when we saved the victims of Hitlers death camps

don't you?

[Scuba]

52. Um, which side in Syria do you equate with the Nazi Army, Luftwaft and Wolfpack?

[VanillaRhapsody]

55. Not equating...but what you said is not always true is it?

sometimes they ARE humanitarian....

[Scuba]

56. As a last resort, yes. We're far, far from that point, which means they aren't in this case.

[NuclearDem]

10. Have you seen the guy's hair? They're hoarding some somewhere...

[MerryBlooms]

14. ok, that made me laugh. :P n/t snorq'n.

[Segami]

23. +1

[treestar]

83. If we were to take him out

Over this would you support it?

[Scuba]

85. No.

On the other hand, if we "bombed" North Korea with food and medicine, I'd support that.

[newfie11]

6. Wow I had some bad boyfriends in my time

But thank God none insane like this guy.

[MerryBlooms]

15. Indeed. n/t

[nolabear]

37. Yes, an insane ex with bigger and more weapons.

In the old days it was the guillotine or the garrote. Despots gotta despot, and no woman who values her life should think she's going to change that.

[treestar]

84. Reason #300

Not to date Kim Jong Un. Though one who is North Korean may not have a choice.

[Yo_Mama]

9. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.... n/t

[MerryBlooms]

16. +1 n/t

[lastlib]

67. Or the oil, as noted up-thread.......

[Boom Sound 416]

11. Guns & Roses

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, Mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I had to put her six feet under
And I can still hear her complain

I used to love her, Oo, yeah
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, Oo, yeah
But I had to kill her
I knew I'd miss her
So I had to keep her
She's buried right in my backyard
Oh yeah, Oo yeah, whoa, oh yeah

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, Mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
She bitched so much, She drove me nuts
And now I'm happier this way, yeah
Whoa, oh yeah

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, Mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I had to put her, Oo, six feet under
And I can still hear her complain

[MerryBlooms]

17. rec n/t

[Volaris]

12. Just WOW...

Porn and Bibles, Heirs and Executions.

When those people finally get around to overthrowing their lunatic government, I don't want OUR Government to be within 1000 MILES of the kind of no-longer-repressed, over-the-top cultural insanity that will emenate from the North for the ensuing 100 years or so.

[Marrah_G]

20. I don't know if the people will ever rise up

Their lives are ruled by fear and adoration through generations of brainwashing. They are also probably not physically able to rise up, the calorie allotment for people is very low. They have no weapons, organization is impossible due to threat of death if you talk to the wrong person.

It's a very sad situation.

Just as and example: There is a documentary about a doctor who went there to perform free cataract surgery, he did like a thousand surgeries in just like a week or so. At the end when the room full of patients finally took off their bandages, they did not that the doctor. Instead, they went up to the picture of their dear leader and bowed and thanked HIM, over and over, while in tears, for curing them.

You can be arrested for folding a page of a newspaper that has a picture of the dear leader on it.

It is a very bizarre environment for any human to live in and is really the biggest cult in the world.

[Volaris]

22. I SAW that Doc, it was NUTS lol...

and yeah, that was the point that I decided that if any Government really NEEDED Hellfire missles and a metric fuckton of foreign aid dropped into their country, it was NK. Iran can do what they need to do for themselves if we actually left them alone and treated them as an equal for awhile (I think that's all they really want anyway) but without Foreign Intervention, I think North Korea will be fucked until at least after the Zombie Apocolypse. lol

[Marrah_G]

24. yup- truly insane

I think I have seen just about every documentary on NK and it just leaves me very sad. Those people will never be free without intervention, but if there is intervention, millions would probably die.

[zipplewrath]

33. good test for the peaceniks

Actually, when you think about it, NK would be a good testing ground for pacifism in action. How do you "intervene" on behalf of the people, without making the people the primary victims of your intervention?

I suspect step 1 would be food, and lots of it.
Step 2 probably involves knowledge in some form.

[Marrah_G]

34. The problem is that even if food was sent it would not get to the people

Unless we do somethings sneaky like drop food and medicine in rural areas and prison farms/camps. But it could not be seen as coming from us because the people there are conditioned to think the US are monsters.

The government wants the people underfed to control them. In fact one sad side effect is how small the recent generations of children are in comparison with their counterparts in SK. lack of nutrition has stunted their growth.

[zipplewrath]

36. That's the obstacle I agree

I also suspect it is part of the larger solution. The food doesn't have to be known to coming from the US. Leveraging the China connection would probably be part of the process. I actually suspect that China would be interested in seeing NK change somewhat, although not necessarily in the same ways that the US government would be interested.

In the end, getting food in there is going to have to be part of the process. And it might have to be done without the cooperation or knowledge of the NK government.

[Volaris]

42. in another 15 years, China might not care what a re-unified penninsula looks like,

as long as their is a SINGLE government that can decide to open up new markets to them. China is one Free and Fair Election away from actually running an Open Society with a Hybrid-style economy. When that happens, we will still call them "Dirty Commies", while believing ourselves to be better than them?

[davidpdx]

59. I disagree

I've lived in both South Korea and China. The Chinese believe that at least part of North Korea is their land. Secondly, they don't want to share a land boarder with a united Korea because of us having troops here. That's why they continue to prop up the Kim's brutal regime.

[zipplewrath]

73. And in there may be a peaceful action

So what you are suggesting is that our departure from Korea could manifest itself in a potential for freeing NK and reuniting the Koreas. All it takes is us accepting that China might be the primary influence in the region. So how do we get ourselves to that point and what has to change?

[davidpdx]

77. No, I'm not advocating for the withdrawal of Korea

I'm saying there is no way China will allow it to happen.

[zipplewrath]

79. Never is a long time

The Berlin wall came down. Things change. China is in a constant state of change. They could get to a point where they'd either see an advantage, or not care.

[davidpdx]

86. It is a long time and I hope I'm wrong

Reforms in China are going to be very slow. The fact that they claim part of North Korea as their own is also a problem.

[davidpdx]

57. Knowledge is already getting into North Korea

South Korean television, music, movies (including those from the west), newspapers, etc. Slowly but surely they are seeping into the country. Also before the death of Kim Jong Il many people were slipping back and forth between North Korea and China and learned quite a bit while in China.

[L0oniX]

13. Don't give the repukes any ideas. n/t

[Marrah_G]

19. Probably not just her, probably also her family

Most people have very little idea of just how bad it is in NK.

Her fate was sealed the moment he picked her.

[The Straight Story]

21. Damn religious wackos!

Oh wait.

[snooper2]

25. They basically are religious wackos

the only difference is, instead of worshiping some mythical being in the sky, they worship the Great Leader!

Indoctrination from the first words a baby can speak....

Just like how the catholic church had their murderous Inquisition Kim has his death squads.

[Posteritatis]

48. Considering they outright deified the last two Kims I'd say they qualify. (nt)

[The Straight Story]

49. So people deify lots of things, like money, someone they love, etc

I guess atheists don't really exist by some definitions.

[Posteritatis]

54. Yeeeah, that's not what I mean.

They claim the Kims control the weather, cause new stars to appear in the skies, and have such flawless juche metabolisms that they never need to use a washroom, and that's on top of setting the calendar's zero year to Kim Il-sung's birthdate.

I don't mean the usual hyperbolic version of "deify" that you're talking about; I mean they actually push the idea that their leaders are effectively gods in a sense that the Romans would recognize, and punish those who suggest otherwise.

[RebelOne]

66. This had nothing to do with religion.

His current wife wanted the ex-girlfriend out of the way.

[Tom Ripley]

26. Idi Amin thinks that motherfucker is crazy

[msanthrope]

27. I miss Hannah Bell/HiPointDem. She would have posted pictures of smiling North Koreans

and condemned you for being a cryptofascistauthoritarian puppet for posting such propaganda.....

Sigh.

[MerryBlooms]

28. Oh mercy, I'd forgotten about that. lol n/t

[msanthrope]

29. You've obviously been paid off by the MIC to 'forget.' nt

[KharmaTrain]

30. Yep...

...he/she was convinced it was a true worker's paradise:

[msanthrope]

31. I miss my favorite troll...nt

[treestar]

35. The amount of uniformity is downright scary

How would it feel to be soldier in row 90 column 60? It's like each one is a robot with no autonomy.

[KharmaTrain]

38. I'm Willing To Bet...

...they got "minders" who watch each other, the ultimate in big brotherism. It's truly classless...

[pnwmom]

40. She's gone? I thought I wasn't seeing her because I finally gave up

and put her on my very short ignore list.

[msanthrope]

41. Oh yeah--her final thread was a flamefest of homphobia. I have no doubt

she's post-building in another forum here on DU, as we speak.

[Scurrilous]

43. Another one gone from my ignore list...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

45. *Snork*!!!

[MADem]

53. He or she is probably here still/again. What a sick individual.

Those crazy pictures....they looked like they were taken with 1950s era equipment. They had that "instagram" vibe before there was Instagram!

[msanthrope]

61. It will do what it did the last time--hide out in the Education forum, build a post count, then

unleash itself on GD. It has multiple identities, I'm sure....socks in the drawer.

[kestrel91316]

58. Wow. How did I miss that about her??? I mean, I know she was a

Grade A Asswipe, but fawning adoration of NK????????????

[msanthrope]

62. Her first banning, in 2011, centered around her anger that NK was being dissed. I could

guess that fur was gonna fly when people started badmouthing Mother Russia.

[kestrel91316]

63. Is it possible she was a troll trying to make liberals look bad by supporting

the worst, most communist nation on earth? Because that was sure a FAIL.

No thinking human being could possibly support them unless they had a gun to their head.

ETA: I mean, I know she WAS a troll, but she had to have been given a mission to come off as a freak so RW sites could point to DUers as commies and such. That's my take.

[msanthrope]

64. No--it was a team---grantcart spent some time on it---

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3457661

[DevonRex]

68. Dammit all to hell. Don't SAY that!!! I am convinced she can

be conjured out of thin air if her name is said at the right time, or enough times or while there's lightning or something.

So for god's sake, be careful.

[msanthrope]

70. I think you need a copy of 'Das Kapital' for that ritual....nt

[DevonRex]

72. Hahahaha!!!!

Oops.

[ladyVet]

69. Really?

Smiling NK? That is so wrong.

I guess I missed all that fun stuff.

[zappaman]

74. One of the greatest threads of all time!

Thanks for the memories!

[NutmegYankee]

75. I recall that. What an Epic fail! nt

[UTUSN]

32. Uh, wouldn't some kind of pornography be a plus for Kim?!1

Kim Jong Un satellite:

[hughee99]

39. His new girlfriend better watch out when she gets a text from him that says:

"Snd me sxy pic so I can hav u shot if we brk up "

I kid, though. I doubt they have texting.

[JI7]

44. i'm not saying what happened to Gaddafi should happen to him

but if it did i don't think i would feel bad.

[backscatter712]

46. He just needs seven more to outdo Henry VIII... n/t

[Generic Other]

47. Some art for your mantel

[Art_from_Ark]

78. A little too flattering, maybe?

That bit of art makes him look a bit too pensive and noble. Maybe something along the lines of Ivan the Terrible would better capture his "inner essence"?

[TorchTheWitch]

65. no, only two more to outdo Henry VIII

Henry VIII had six wives only two of which were executed... Anne Boleyn beheaded on trumped up charges, Catherine Howard on actual charges. His first wife, Katherine of Aragon, he divorced claiming she was never legally married to him to begin with so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. Less than 24 hours after Anne Boleyn's execution he married wife No. 3, Jane Seymour. Jane died after giving birth to Edward VI (Henry's first and only son to survive infancy). He then married Anne of Cleves though he was pissed off that she looked nothing like he was told and thought she was ugly and smelled bad though the people loved her. He divorced her using the excuse that she was previously betrothed (she outlived him and all the other wives). Following the execution of his 5th wife, Catherine Howard, his sixth and final wife was Katherine Parr who outlived him and upon his death almost immediately married Thomas Seymour, brother to Jane Seymour. She died after childbirth having become pregnant for the first time in her life at an older age with Seymour and likely from the same illness as Jane which was all too common in those days since they had no understanding of cleanliness when treating a patient. Woman commonly died in childbirth back then or soon after from what was likely puerperal fever, an acute form of septicemia.

[PCIntern]

80. Wow, Jane Seymour looks GREAT for her age!

I just saw her in that movie with Christopher Reeve...

Just kidding...

[TorchTheWitch]

87. funny, of all the wives Jane was ugly as sin

Yet Henry prized her the most and insisted on being buried beside her (which he was). She was so uneducated she could barely even write her own name (just her first name... the whole thing would have been beyond her). Kind of odd seeing as Henry prized both beauty and intelligence neither or which she had (at ALL).

Rather a shame that such a pretty actress got stuck with that wife's name... I suppose it's better than getting stuck with the name Catherine Howard though seeing as she was a young selfish greedy ninny that actually did commit treason in sneaking about boinking a hotty at court. I'd actually forgotten all about the actress Jane Seymour. I did always rather like her though. I can't think of anything she's been in since the '80's.

[AsahinaKimi]

50. If true, this is nuts..

I would hate to be his next pick...

[killbotfactory]

71. This info comes from a single anonymous chinese source

It's par for the course for NK, but you would think they could get a second source considering the were supposedly executed in public.

[Historic NY]

76. Got to admit they definitely have swift justice 3 days...

[Crimson76]

81. Jeez, and I thought I was harsh for defriending my ex.

[gopiscrap]

88. Welcome to DU

Nice sarcastic comment, you'll fit in well!

[BainsBane]

82. Getting involved with a dictator is definitely a dating don't.

What a homicidal sociopath. How awful for the poor woman.