Kim's aunt appears OK after husband's execution

"Kim's aunt appears OK" in the title carries a wealth of different meanings.

Reading the article, we find that she appears poorly and sick/ill, but politically unaffected by the NK-style reshuffle. As to her emotional reaction to her husband's execution, the article tells us nothing, so we can only guess. She appears to be one cold lady, but in NK it seems that people need to rat out your fellow, in order just to survive.

North Korea, is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG for these crazy dictators, so “Dictators always feel uneasy,” he said. So are we supposed to feel sorry for these poor wittle, spoiled dictators?? They do not know who to trust? Even their own father's family and friends?? Yup, that sounds like the DPRK that we all know and love!!

Heck, she's a four-star army general - they can't get rid of her that easily!

"You appear OK or you get the same treatment."

Heck, she's a four-star army general - they can't get rid of her that easily!

So was the guy the offed... right?

I think this article gives her far too much credit because the reporters in this news article doesn't realize the latest news coming out of North Korea by spies, and published in South Korea. The old woman has had Alzheimer's disease for a while now, and the symptoms have gotten much worse lately. She divorced her husband just before the day he was executed, or more likely, forced into a divorce since she doesn't have her own mind. The old woman and her husband had a fall out decades ago, because of his womanizing ways. They had a lone child, a daughter who committed suicide in France where she was studying, in 2006. Despite the fallout, the couple had kept in touch frequently and for the most part, were still in friendly terms. I would say she had nothing to do with his execution since she's not in her right mind, and it was probably Kim Jong Eun himself who hated his uncle-in-law for his womanizing ways and the resentment of his uncle's power.

There are all sorts of rumors flying around from "it was her idea to have him purged in the first place" to "she's the next to go." Truth is, nobody outside of the asylum as the slightest clue what's going on with the inmates.

@chucky3176: What do you think about him womanizing while neglecting his fragile wife? I don;t know details but my guess is that whoever ordered him to be executed gave sympathy beside other reasons. Maybe this young nephew have been upset for years? Young one klnew his cousin suicide reason in France, I;d bet. There must be something we don;t know.

Maybe Mr.Hashimoto, down in Osaka summed up North Korea very correctly, a Yakuza state!!