right? executed, yeah. he did. do we know why the uncle was executed? did he misbehave at thanksgiving dinner, what did he do? allegations the uncle engaged in treason and tried to bring down the economy and gambling and womanizing and threw everything at him. in reality what happened is probably that kim jong-un decided that it would make him look tough in the eyes of any enemies he might have internally and that s the way they do business there. i have uncles to try to bring down the economy and were womanizing and i couldn t execute them. slander on the o reillys. so now dennis rodman is to the rescue. he s going there again. former nba player, dennis rodman. second in command to john kerry at the state department. he s going to north korea to do what? this will be his third visit there this year. typically he stages some sort of basketball exhibitions and he pals around with the dictator.
right? executed, yeah. he did. do we know why the uncle was executed? did he misbehave at thanksgiving dinner, what did he do? allegations the uncle engaged in treason and tried to bring down the economy and gambling and womanizing and threw everything at him. in reality what happened is probably that kim jong-un decided that it would make him look tough in the eyes of any enemies he might have internally and that s the way they do business there. i have uncles to try to bring down the economy and were womanizing and i couldn t execute them. slander on the o reillys. so now dennis rodman is to the rescue. he s going there again. former nba player, dennis rodman. second in command to john kerry at the state department. he s going to north korea to do what? this will be his third visit there this year. typically he stages some sort of basketball exhibitions and he
through medieval intrigue. this is richard iii with nukes. this said that he was executed for treason but when he was removed from his post, he was accused of drug, you re womanizing, being bribed by the enemy. what do you think is really going on here? yeah, the bribe by enemies is really important. that s a direct reference to china. and i think that what we re going to see is north korea be even more untethered from beijing. u.s. policy has always been to rely on china to press its best friend, north korea. i don t think china has really that influence anymore. what we have is a blood feud. when you have executions, you re going to have more executions. this is just going to ripple throughout society. and that is why this is important. north korea is going to be even more isolated, more dangerous than it has been in the past. it mentioned the north korean news agency mentioned womanizing
they wasted no time he was executed. paula man cox joins us now. the korean central news agency said the crimes of this man included attempts to over throw the state, do we know exactly what the regime is claiming he did? well, anderson, we have the longest article from kcna that we ve seen in the years i ve been covering north korea. the crimes he s accused of, d y denying party line, squandering assets and money and also womanizing, using drugs, gambling, eating in expensive restaurants. the crimes is extensive. you had that very interesting quote there. that s the entire article. that is the way that it is written, showing humiliating this man and showing that he absolutely had to be executed.
senior general, uncle and mentor of north korean leader kim john kim jong-un, executed, accused of corruption, drug use, gambling, womanizing and attempting to overthrow the government. here he is again in a picture a few feet away from his nephew, then in another image erased. we have no reason to doubt the official state media report. this is another example of the extreme brutality of the north korean regime. it s a shocking example of deep instability at the very top of this nuclear armed dictatorship, coming a year after kim deposed another senior military leader. if you cannot trust your number one and two man in the system, that clearly means you don t trust anybody. and to me that s not a good sign. reporter: still, proving the north s supreme unpredictability only last week, the leadership delivered a surprisingly positive gesture.