‘Kim Jong-un made dogs eat uncle alive’

The uncle of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un was killed after being stripped naked and was then fed to hungry dogs, reports in a state-backed Chinese newspaper said on Friday.

‘Despicable human scum, worse than a dog’ was the description North Korea gave of Jang Song-thaek, but the reports which appeared in Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po newspaper, suggest that he may have been killed by dogs. A report on a news website goes on to talk about how Jang and his five aides were stripped naked and fed to over hundred hungry hounds, who had already been starving for three days. The gory proceeding lasted for an hour and hundreds of officials watched as the dogs ripped the men apart.

Singapore’s Straits Times claims that the account listed alongside a few other criticisms in the report shows how Beijing is displeased with the changing regime, but currently there is no consistent editorial line in Chinese state media.  Moreover, North Korea has not confirmed the method of execution by dogs.

Aidan Foster-Carter, a senior research fellow at Leeds University, said that such a cruelty is extreme even by North Korea’s extreme standards.