# Kim Jong Un croaked his uncle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197 "2013-12-12T21:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/41 "2013-12-13T23:44:34Z")
How can there be such horrible people in this world. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/42 "2013-12-13T23:55:48Z")
You don’t read a lot of history do you? It is as it always has been. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/43 "2013-12-14T01:28:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Didn’t Ста́лин (Stalin) pull this kind of shit too? If you were an ‘Old Bolshevik’ — with early party membership, plenty of connections with the other old bores, an heroic reputation in the civil war and a personal friend of Krupskaya — you were as good as gold. Until you weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/44 "2013-12-14T03:00:27Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > How can there be such horrible people in this world. Hell, every tiny dictator in a place of business would be like that if only given the chance. Well liked people, who are promoted, are “in charge” and begin metaphorically crucifying workers. The bakery manager at a grocery store, who instead of praising good work, gives a Hitlerian grimace and declares, “That’s the way I like it.” Everyone has the ability to be evil, most of us thankfully don’t get the chance. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/45 "2013-12-14T03:41:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Everyone has the ability to be evil, most of us thankfully don’t get the chance. I don’t believe this for one second. Most people have the chance to be evil, but don’t have the ability. Those who have a true ability for evil don’t need to be given a chance, they take it. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/46 "2013-12-14T23:06:44Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > How can there be such horrible people in this world. I blame Rankin-Bass Holiday cartoons. No. Even if Rankin-Bass Holiday cartoons were re-done with Alyson Hannigan and written as Porn, it couldn’t explain a mind that badly twisted… ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/47 "2013-12-14T23:19:19Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Hell, every tiny dictator in a place of business would be like that if only given the chance. You think most people would have their uncles executed if they had the chance? :eek: > [@](#): > > Well liked people, who are promoted, are “in charge” and begin metaphorically crucifying workers. > The bakery manager at a grocery store, who instead of praising good work, gives a Hitlerian grimace and declares, “That’s the way I like it.” > Everyone has the ability to be evil, most of us thankfully don’t get the chance. Kim’s evil is quite literal, not metaphorical. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/48 "2013-12-14T23:55:58Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You think most people would have their uncles executed if they had the chance? :eek: I can think of a past relative or two. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/49 "2013-12-15T00:09:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I can think of a past relative or two. Honest. So you would make them ‘passed relatives’… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/50 "2013-12-15T00:25:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So you would make them ‘passed relatives’… Well, they _were_ little shits. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/51 "2013-12-15T00:30:00Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Insanity seems to run in the Kim family. Seem like each generation is nuttier than the previous one. So what’s the next nutty step? Tossing a friendly nuke over the pond? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/52 "2013-12-15T00:34:13Z")
The dragging out of a public meeting, the absurdly over-the-top trumped charges including unenthusiastic applause, the “despicable human scum, worse than a dog, thrice-cursed traitor” insults, the reports of all charges being proven and admitted… … this Kim is going seriously Old School Style with the purgin’, isn’t he? No simple removal followed within days by a mysteriou accident or sudden-onset illness, eh? Then again, Auntie’s husband had already been purged/disgraced once before but got himself rehabilitated, so I guess they wanted to make sure he stayed purged this time around. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/53 "2013-12-15T00:46:47Z")
[Reminds me of Saddam’s little hissy fit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm64E5R12s8) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/54 "2013-12-15T01:28:09Z")
[Stalin’s aplause buzzer](http://youtu.be/wXGh_sbPUk0) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/55 "2013-12-15T03:18:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You think most people would have their uncles executed if they had the chance? :eek: > > Kim’s evil is quite literal, not metaphorical. Like I said, most of us don’t get the chance. I have a [Little List](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NLV24qTnlg). Don’t you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/56 "2013-12-15T19:15:08Z")
Auntie Kyong Hui seems to be doing just [fine](http://news.yahoo.com/kim-39-aunt-appears-ok-husband-39-execution-075603544.html), at least for now. She might have even been involved in her husband’s purging. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/57 "2013-12-17T16:32:48Z")
As if the situation wasn’t crazy enough, everyone’s favorite cross-dressing basketball player (Dennis Rodman) has decided that now is a good time to visit his buddy Kim Jong Il again. You’d think recent events might prompt him to re-think his travel plans, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/58 "2014-01-03T16:14:21Z")
Here is an interesting story, that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle with his five closest aides by stripping them naked and tossing them into a cage holding 120 starving dogs. These 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called ‘quan jue’, or execution by dogs,” according to the Straits Times of Singapore. [http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224](http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224) Nobody here would believe this, right? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/59 "2014-01-03T16:22:41Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > As if the situation wasn’t crazy enough, everyone’s favorite cross-dressing basketball player (Dennis Rodman) has decided that now is a good time to visit his buddy Kim Jong Il again. > > You’d think recent events might prompt him to re-think his travel plans, but apparently not. > [@PastTense](#): > > Here is an interesting story, that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle with his five closest aides by stripping them naked and tossing them into a cage holding 120 starving dogs. These 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called ‘quan jue’, or execution by dogs,” according to the Straits Times of Singapore. > [http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224](http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224) What has Rodman to fear? I hear he loves dogs. It’s [Donald Trump](http://www.vibe.com/article/why-was-dennis-rodman-fired-%E2%80%98all-star-celebrity-apprentice%E2%80%99) he needs to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197/60 "2014-01-03T16:25:24Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Here is an interesting story, that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle with his five closest aides by stripping them naked and tossing them into a cage holding 120 starving dogs. These 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called ‘quan jue’, or execution by dogs,” according to the Straits Times of Singapore. > [http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224](http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224) > > Nobody here would believe this, right? Who knows if it is true, but the story ads another elegant touch: the alleged eaten-by-dogs execution is reported to have been witnessed by Kim Jong Un and 300 other top officials. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-croaked-his-uncle/676197.md?page=4)