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Following the execution of Jang Song Taek \u201cAt around 10PM on the night of the 13th, \u201cIt wasn’t just his close relatives who According to the source, people were The source also reported that once news of \u201cIt seems like they are trying to take Looking at the background to the latest step <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe Upper [the authorities] have been telling us <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the execution of Jang Song Taek for allegedly plotting to overthrow the North Korean state, Daily NK has learned that a substantial number of the former elite official\u2019s blood relatives are being transferred to political prison camps. \u201cAt around 10PM on the night of the 13th, the day after Jang was executed, armed men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":25526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nfor allegedly plotting to overthrow the North Korean state, Daily NK has learned that a substantial number of the
\nformer elite official\u2019s blood relatives are being transferred to
\npolitical prison camps.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe day after Jang was executed, armed men from the Ministry of State Security
\narrived unannounced in the Pyongchon area of Pyongyang where a lot of his
\nrelatives lived,\u201d a source from the North Korean capital reported to Daily NK
\non the 20th. \u201cThey took away a few hundred people. As far as I know they were
\ntaken off to political prison camp.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nwere taken away, but distant relatives too like the relatives of his father,\u201d he added. \u201cIn these circumstances even his relatives outside Pyongyang aren\u2019t
\nsafe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nalready astonished by the news of Jang\u2019s execution, but now they are even more fearful
\nas local households have started disappeared overnight. Because the crimes that
\nJang is officially said to have committed are extremely serious felonies, some
\nexpect his family to be executed, while others presume they will be permanently
\nincarcerated.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJang\u2019s arrest by the secret police got around, a portion of those people who were
\nworried that their links to him might lead to punishment even volunteered to take
\npart in \u201crevolutionization\u201d by laboring on farms or in mines.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nself-imposed punishment in order to evade a more stringent one, but they’ll
\nfind it difficult to escape that way. Jang\u2019s crimes are \u2018anti-Party, counter-revolutionary
\nfactionalism,\u2019 so of course they will have to say that his family challenged
\nthe system. For this reason, severe punishment awaits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nin the eradication of Jang Song Taek from North Korean officialdom, the source said
\nthat the fundamental purpose is to quash all potential for internal unrest. \u201cIn
\nreality there are quite a few people who have doubts about Jang Song Taek\u2019s
\nalleged crimes,\u201d he said. \u201cThey know that the authorities can find a
\npretext for anything if they really want to, so they are being very careful not
\nto draw attention to themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthat it’s fine to continue as normal, and there has been no real worsening of
\neveryday restrictions, for example on market activity,” he concluded. However, “Many
\npeople have no idea what could happen to them next. Actually, the number of
\npeople coming to trade in the markets is slowly decreasing.\u201d