1/9/2024 0 Comments Betrayl at house tok tik tik![]() ![]() News Agency on 29 January 2006 found that Jang had been reinstated in December 2005. Some South Korean intelligence reports indicated that Jang was under house arrest in Pyongyang, while others suggested he might have been sent for "reeducation". He had been identified by outside analysts as well as North Korean defector and former high official Hwang Jang-yop as a possible successor to Kim Jong Il however, on 25 November 2004, South Korea's National Assembly heard testimony that he had been purged from his position. Jang was appointed to be the first deputy director (or vice director) of the WPK's Organization and Guidance Department in November 1995. ![]() He was a member of the funeral committee for Kim Il Sung in 1994. Later that year he was promoted to full member of the 6th Central Committee. In April 1992, he was named a member of the Order of Kim Il Sung. In April 1989, Jang was made a People's Hero in June 1989, he was elected an alternate member of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was first elected to the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), North Korea's nominal parliament, in 1986. ![]() His career recovered and he became deputy director of the Youth Work Department of the 6th WPK Central Committee in 1982 and director in 1985. It was reported that Jang suffered severe burns in an industrial accident at the factory in Chollima/ Kangson. Reports said that he was becoming too powerful or, according to other accounts, he had an over-ostentatious lifestyle. In the late 1970s, however Jang's career stalled when he was sent away from the central party to be manager of a steel and ironworks in Nampo, an apparent demotion. His first post was as an instructor for the Pyongyang City Committee of the Workers' Party. Early career īeginning in the 1970s, Jang held a series of positions in the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The couple had a daughter, Jang Kum-song (1977–2006), who lived in Paris as an international student she refused an order to return to Pyongyang and then reportedly committed suicide in September 2006, due to Jang and his wife's opposition to her relationship with her boyfriend. Following his return, he married Kim Kyong-hui, the younger (and only) sister of Kim Jong Il. He graduated from the Kim Il Sung Senior High School before leaving for Moscow, where he studied at Moscow State University between 19. Jang was born in Chongjin, during the Soviet Civil Administration of Northern Korea. On 13 December, North Korea state media announced he had been executed by firing squad. His photos were removed from official media and his image digitally removed from photos with other North Korean leaders. In December 2013, Jang was abruptly accused of being a counter-revolutionary and was stripped of all his posts and expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Jang was considered a "key policy adviser" to Kim Jong Un. He is believed to have been promoted to four-star general around the time of Kim Jong-il's death in December 2011, as his first appearance in uniform was while visiting Kim lying in state. Jang was vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, a position considered second only to that of the Supreme Leader. However, in 2008 South Korean government officials and academic North Korea experts suggested that he had de facto leadership over North Korea while Kim Jong Il's health was declining and when Kim subsequently died. ![]() The extent of Jang Song-thaek's power and position has not been confirmed in the West. He was therefore the uncle (by marriage) of current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. He was married to Kim Kyong-hui, the only daughter of North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung and his first wife Kim Jong-suk, and only sister of North Korean general secretary Kim Jong Il. Jang Song-thaek (January or February 1946 – 12 December 2013) was a North Korean politician. Vice Chairman of the National Defence CommissionĬhairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance CommissionĬhief of the Central Administrative Department of Workers' Party ![]()
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