Is North Korea Unwinding Economic Ties With China?
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These are grim days not only for the friends and family of recently executed North Korean official Jang Song Thaek, but for people and programs he had supported. That includes economic relations with China, which Jang had overseen.
Last week, North Korean state media reported that Kim Jong Un’s uncle was executed as a traitor, describing him thus: “Despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the party and the leader for him.”