jong-un at the funeral of kim the elder. some experts, lug gordon chang, say this is more about north noh korea s generals reasserting their power. they didn t like uncle jung and are apparently taking revenge on him. they have blamedded him and gotten at him and apparently had would aides executed. so this is story of still turmoil in the regime. the thing about executions is important because once they start they re hard to stop because blood demand bloods. so, no gordon s view, those two executions that we have been told about are very unlikely to be the last in this ongoing power struggle. we mentioned there are two americans being held. there was a pattern in the past about if you re america how you get them released. the pattern doesn t seem to fit anyplace. it doesn t. those two americans are the christian missionary, kenneth bay, being held for more than a year, and merle newman.