# North Korean top general purged — more **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979 "2013-12-10T15:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/101 "2014-01-03T23:21:36Z")
It’s a dog-eat-Dong world. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/102 "2014-01-04T00:06:40Z")
> [@Rucksinator](#): > > What are the odds that he actually did this? Is it more likely that he just had somebody put a bullet in his brain, and then made up that story? Or that he actually did it? It seems unlikely, the paper that is reporting this is apparently at the Daily Mail/National Enquirer/Insert your local sensationalist bullshit newspaper here - end of the spectrum. No evidence is being offered. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/103 "2014-01-04T02:09:18Z")
Someone in another thread linked to this [Washington Post article](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/03/no-kim-jong-un-probably-didnt-feed-his-uncle-to-120-hungry-dogs/?tid=pm_pop) detailing why the dog story is probably a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/104 "2014-01-04T06:05:56Z")
Isn’t he supposed to have had someone executed by mortar round and some other group with anti-aircraft guns? And of course, he had his ex-girlfriend machine gunned. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/105 "2014-01-04T06:07:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Someone in another thread linked to this [Washington Post article](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/03/no-kim-jong-un-probably-didnt-feed-his-uncle-to-120-hungry-dogs/?tid=pm_pop) detailing why the dog story is probably a hoax. Well, I’ll be dog gone! ---
**Author:** ![iLemming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@iLemming](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iLemming)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/106 "2014-01-08T02:19:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea to play basketball for Kim Jong Un’s birthday has managed to get even more bizarre with the former NBL star in an on-air meltdown during a live interview. Rodman, who sat smoking a cigar in front of the team of other former players who had travelled to North Korea with him, began to scream and rant at questions being asked by CNN host Chris Cuomo about the nature of his visit to the secretive country. [url=]Rodman’s interview meltdown over North Korea 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/107 "2014-01-08T02:32:10Z")
Were you going [for this link?](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman/) ---
**Author:** ![iLemming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90db22/32.png) [@iLemming](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iLemming)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979/108 "2014-01-08T02:47:06Z")
Can someone please translate [this interview](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535153/Dennis-Rodman-defends-North-Korean-basketball-trip-insists-Kim-Jong-trying-change-country.html?login¶m__host=www.dailymail.co.uk¶m_oauth_verifier=Y7TJy53p0SbZK5ffcPUGLBQnqUdv0T4bgUCL1208olc¶m_oauth_token=7Fdsk13xyS0BUO8sMsISbDAFAzThRhplO8qXR8Cg¶m_geolocation=row) for me? (\*video) I’m unsure of the dialect being spoken by the interviewee, but it resonates of the method of communication used in the Monolith scene by the chimpanzees in _2001: A Space Odyssey_… Thanks. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-top-general-purged-more/675979.md?page=5)