FEEDING A PACK OF WOLVES

It should surprise nobody that a brutal dictator, who would allow millions of his own people to languish near starvation, would also personally supervise a horrible atrocity like feeding live human beings to a pack of ravenous dogs. According to China’s Wen Wei Po newspaper, that’s exactly what North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un did last month when he oversaw the execution of his own uncle, Kim Song Thaek.

The dictator’s uncle, formerly viewed as the second most powerful person in North Korea, was removed from his post during the second week of December after being charged with crimes that the North Korean regime described as sedition, having delusions of grandeur, womanizing and drug use. Experts on the reclusive North Korean regime claim that the actual reason for Kim Song Thaek’s ouster and execution was that his nephew felt threatened by his uncle’s stature among the North Korean elite and believed that his uncle’s stature jeopardized his own grip on power. Killing off Thaek and a group of his closest lieutenants was the quickest solution Kim Jong Un could find to end the perceived threat.

Putting aside the question of whether Kim Song Thaek’s death sentence was justified or not, the report of Kim Jong Un’s sadism in personally supervising the feeding of his uncle to a pack of ravenous dogs while his uncle was still alive, can leave nobody in doubt that the North Korean dictator is nothing less than pure evil.

According to the Chinese newspaper that first reported the incident, Kim Jong Un had his uncle and several of his uncle’s closest aides stripped naked and thrown into a large cage occupied by 120 ravenous dogs that had been starved for five days before the grotesque execution. The North Korean dictator and three hundred officials in his regime then watched as the pack of dogs ripped apart living flesh and bone and devoured all of the sentenced prisoners…and we thought Michael Vick’s dog-fighting days were despicable.

The unspeakable horror that was Kim Song Thaek’s manner of death cannot be kept silent, as the world must recognize that Kim Jong Un's lust for power knows no limit. He is guilty of crimes against humanity. Hopefully, one day he will be forced to answer for his crimes.