North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un

NORTH KOREA: GOVERNMENT PLANS TO EXECUTE 200 SUPPORTERS OF JANG SONG THAEK

April 3, 2014: The North Korean government plans to execute 200 supporters of Jang Song Thaek and ship their families to concentration camps, according to reports.
Song Thaek was the uncle of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The former vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission was tried and executed in Dec. 2013 for alleged corruption and attempting to overthrow the government.
The latest round of death sentences will be issued behind closed doors in order to "look as if proper procedure, to the extent that it exists at all, has been followed," an anonymous source told South Korea’s The Chosun Ilbo on Tuesday (March 1st).
About 1,000 family members of supporters will be rounded up and sent to a concentration camp without a trial, the source said.
The North Korean state department identified the supporters as high-ranking officials in the Korean Workers Party and will make an example of them through a public execution, The Chosun Ilbo reported.
The execution will be at a shooting range in the Kang Kon Military Academy and be attended by high-ranking party, government and military officials, according to the paper.
South Korean media reported in January that all blood relatives of Jang Song Thaek had been put to death under order of Kim Jong Un. (Sources: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 03/04/2014)