Bad Nephew

Kim Jong Un is out of line.

I remember when his Daddy, crazy old Kim Jong  Il, kicked  the bucket, and young Kim Jong stepped into the job.  I was optimistic.

He’d gone to college in Europe, it was reported that he liked Western things, and I’m generally an optimistic sort of guy.  Also, I was encouraged by a couple of silly little things, like allowing women to ride bicycles in the city, and having Dennis Rodman over for a visit.

But, then, there were the rumors that he’d had an ex-girlfriend executed, so nobody would get any ideas, and they screamed and yelled for a while about how it was all a scurrilous lie by the Western powers that hate him, and everybody  forgot all about it.

However, if there’s somebody who everybody says you executed and they weren’t actually ever executed, there is a very easy and effective way  to disprove the allegation.  They just need to go on TV and say “Hey, look, everybody, I’m still alive.”

Jang Song Thaek

Now, he had his uncle executed, and its looking more and more like the apple didn’t fall far from the tree and Kim Jong Un is just the next crazy Kim in line.

Of course, I don’t know what went on behind the scenes, maybe Uncle Jang Song Thaek was trying to have  young Kim whacked, but we’re never going to hear his  side of the story.

Instead, we  have the official government press release saying Jang had been tried and executed  for “attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.” It called him a “traitor to the nation for all ages” and “worse than a dog.”

No real specifics, though.

Prediction: this is going to get worse.  He’s already in deep, and he doesn’t care any more who knows he’s a bad guy, if he  ever did.