North Korea’s Urge to Purge
It is always difficult to assess what is going on in North Korea, which seems to regard its opaqueness as a national-security asset. But there was nothing opaque in the sudden purge and swift execution of Jang Song-thaek earlier this month.
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BEIJING – Just when and how the North Korean regime will end cannot be predicted. Its demise could come via a military coup or a palace coup; a worker uprising or a peasant uprising; a consequence of economic failure or something that simply reflects the banality of the entire place. But one element of the Kim dynasty’s end is certain: China will have abandoned it.