Why did Jang Song-taek, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, finally go to the guillotine?
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Jang Song-taek, from the grassroots to the power of the opposition, and then from the core power layer to the guillotine, his life is full of legends. He was once second in command after Kim Jong-il, but in December 2013, a North Korean military court handed down a death sentence against him.
How did Jang Song-taek go from the grassroots to the pinnacle of power, and how did he go from a "regent" who leaned towards the government and the opposition to the end of the condemned prisoner? His growth was full of love and challenges, and he climbed to the top of his life through unremitting efforts.
At the end of January 1946, Jang Song-taek was born into an ordinary family in North Korea. He has shown extraordinary wisdom and cleverness since he was a child, and he is deeply loved by people both in learning and in character.
Jang Song-taek has had great ambitions since he was a child, and he firmly believes that his future will be limitless. However, as he grew older, Jang Song-taek began to realize the vastness of the world and his own ordinariness.
He has experienced a low point in his life, has been defeated by reality, and has accepted his ordinariness. However, he did not give up because of this, but strengthened his belief and was determined to climb to the top of his life.
When he was in high school, Jang Song-taek met many people with different characteristics, and it also made him understand that although some gaps are destined from birth, as long as there is determination and courage, they can be changed through their own efforts.
The core idea of the new copy maintains the original text, and through Jang Song-thaek's growth process, it explains how he went from the grassroots to the pinnacle of power, and finally to the end of the death row.
At the same time, the new copy also emphasizes Jang Song-taek's perseverance and determination, as well as his deep understanding of life.
Unlike most other ordinary people, Jang Song-taek did not accept the arrangement of fate, but was full of "unwillingness". He firmly believes that a person's fate is not determined by birth and family environment, and that the fate of ordinary people can also be colorful.
Therefore, when others obeyed their fate and lived with peace of mind, Jang Song-taek never gave up the pursuit of a better life and fought for a change in fate with unremitting efforts.
Eventually, he was admitted to Kim Il Sung University, which he knew was an important step in his destiny, but he never expected that this school would become a "ladder to heaven" for him to realize his dreams.
Although Jang Song-taek was born into an ordinary family, he has an enviable appearance, and his confident and elegant personality makes him comfortable in interpersonal communication in college, especially favored by many female classmates.
At that age, he was full of curiosity and desire for love, but Jang Song-taek did not accept anyone's confession, because he believed that love was not his goal in life.
But soon after, his mind changed drastically as he met Kim Kyung-hee. There is nothing special about the beginning of this story, and it is no different from the story of most men and women who meet her, but Kim Kyong-hee is unique, she is the daughter of Kim Il Sung, the founding leader of North Korea, and she is the "ladder to heaven" in Jang Song-thaek's heart.
Jang Song-taek understands that he is very attractive in the eyes of his female classmates, and he is also used to using this advantage to his advantage. But Kim Kyung-hee is different from others, she has seen too many attractive men, and she is not so easily attracted to some superficial qualities.
Although Jang Song-taek was able to sing and dance and show his charm as much as he could, he never won Kim Kyung-hee's liking. Despite suffering many setbacks at Kim Kyung-hee, Jang Song-thaek had no intention of giving up, and he just immediately changed his strategy.
After a period of observation, Jang Song-taek found that although Kim Kyung-hee was always surrounded by many people and seemed to be in the limelight, she had a haughty personality and a good temper, and most of the people around her were flatterers and panderers, and there were no real friends who could make friends with her.
Jang Song-taek changed his tactics, no longer trying to attract Kim Kyung-hee with his charm, but gradually won her heart with a gentle attitude. No matter how Kim Kyung-hee reacted, he remained accommodating and gentle.
In the end, Kim Kyung-hee fell into this feeling of being loved, completely unaware that it was just an illusion in disguise. Their romance soon reached the ears of Kim Il Sung, who immediately guessed Jang Song-thaek's ambitions and strongly opposed the affair.
However, Kim Kyung-hee was raised by a nanny since she was a child, and she was resentful of her father, and she was unwilling to obey her father's orders and broke up with Jang Song-taek.
In the face of Kim Il Sung's determination, Jang Song-taek's attitude appeared firm and resolute. In the face of all kinds of pressure, he behaved as immovable, so that Kim Il Sung had to sigh: "This guy is really not easy to deal with." ”
Therefore, Kim Il Sung began to be wary of Jang Song-taek and took tough measures to send him to Moscow to study. Despite the distance, this did not prevent the development of feelings between them.
After Jang Song-thaek returned to China, Kim Kyung-hee still chose to ignore his father's opposition and insisted on marrying him.
Jang Song-taek and Kim Kyung-hee both smiled so brightly at their wedding in April 1972. Kim Kyung-hee found her "happiness", and Jang Song-taek really grabbed his "ladder to the sky".
From this moment on, half of his feet have stepped into the core of North Korean politics. Over the next few decades, he gradually rose to the pinnacle of power. Even after 10 years of "snow hiding" after marrying Kim Kyung-hee, he persevered and finally achieved his goal.
Jang Song-thaek spent a full decade outside the central arena of North Korean politics, holding an inconsequential position, becoming an inconsequential figure. Ten years of torment either made him show his ambition or smoothed his ambition.
And this is exactly what Kim Il Sung is aiming for. Finally, in 1982, he was appointed deputy minister of the Ministry of Labor and Youth Affairs of the DPRK, officially stepping into the core of North Korean politics and beginning his journey to power.
A few years later, he gained a foothold in North Korea, but did not show strong ambitions.
Did Jang lose his ambitions in a decade? In fact, he just continued to forbear, because he was well aware of Kim Il Sung's jealousy of him. In 1994, Kim Il Sung died, the regime changed, and Kim Jong Il became the new leader.
At this time, Jang Song-taek finally had a chance to be promoted. Kim Jong-il was not wary of Jang Song-thaek like his father, but attached great importance to him. Because Kim Jong-il and Kim Kyung-hee are siblings of the same mother, and their father had a new wife and other children after the death of their mother, the relationship between the two siblings is deeper than that of their father.
Kim Jong-il doted on his sister Kim Kyung-hui very much, so he was also very friendly to Jang Song-thaek.
During Kim Jong-il's reign, Jang Song-thaek was treated like a relative of the emperor, not only wielding enormous power, but even receiving a gold medal for avoiding death after committing a crime of reckless disregard for human life.
However, in 1997, Jang Song-thaek was in charge of the purge campaign at the behest of Kim Jong-il, but he treated the people with cruelty, resulting in more than 20,000 people suffering and thousands dying.
At that time, Moon Sung-su, the secretary in charge of labor in North Korea, had reported Jang Song-thaek's crime to Kim Il-sung, so Jang Song-thaek hated him for many years. During the purge, Jang Song-thaek declared a personal vendetta and killed Moon Sung-su, an incident that quickly attracted the attention of Kim Jong-il.
Upon learning of this, Kim Jong Il immediately stopped the purge campaign and ordered a thorough investigation of the "deepening group" in charge of the campaign. After the results of the investigation were announced, several key responsible persons were severely punished, including death sentences and imprisonment.
However, the biggest person in charge, Jang Song-taek, did not receive any punishment and only temporarily left the political arena. In 2002, Jang Song-taek was again reused to take charge of the task of going abroad.
In April of the same year, he was awarded the rank of second marshal. At this time, Jang Song-taek has become the tacit "No. 2 person" in North Korea. In 2003, Hwang Chang-yeol, who had served as president of Kim Il Sung University, even said, "If Kim Jong-il's regime collapses, the most likely successor to him is Jang Song-thaek." ”
Jang Song-taek: An evergreen tree in the field of power Jang Song-taek has gone through ups and downs in North Korea and has fallen into a trough many times, but he has always managed to make a successful comeback with his tenacity and resourcefulness.
In 2004, Jang Song-thaek was appointed head of the party school, but the seemingly idle position with no real power revealed that he was degraded for unknown reasons, suspected to be related to the struggle for power succession.
Even after being demoted, Mr. Jang remained ambitious, and within a year he was removed from his post on suspicion of sectarian activities, and his political career seemed to be coming to an end. However, politics is often fraught with surprises, and it wasn't long before Jang was once again entrusted with a heavy responsibility.
In March 2006, he undertook an 11-day visit to China and was appointed first vice minister of the Ministry of Construction, demonstrating his strong influence in the arena of power.
Jang Song-thaek's status in North Korea's political arena has risen step by step. In 2007, he served as the Minister of Labor Administration of the DPRK; In 2010, he was elected vice chairman of the DPRK's National Defense Commission, officially becoming the second-in-command of North Korea's most powerful institution.
Kim Chong-il's illness worsened, and it was decided to confer the rank of general on Jang Song-thaek a month before his death. In December, Jang Song-taek was officially conferred the title, and the power of the military and political parties was in his hands.
After Kim Jong-il's death, Jang Song-thaek, as Kim Jong-un's uncle, truly became the "regent" of the ruling and opposition parties.
The second half of Jang Song-thaek's life was supposed to be glamorous, but after Kim Jong-un came to power, the powerful minister suffered a tragic end two years later. The expansion of ambition eventually led to his demise.
Despite the fact that Jang Song-thaek is in his sixties and has stood at the pinnacle of power in North Korea, his ambitions have not faded with the passage of time, but continue to swell endlessly.
When he was young, he was unwilling to accept a mediocre life, and in old age, he was not willing to be subservient. Eventually, because of his ambitions, he embarked on a path of self-destruction.
On the second anniversary of Kim Jong-il's death, the hot topic in North Korea was not the commemoration of the former leader, but the speculation and speculation about the "regent" Jang Song-thaek, because until that day, the official news had not been officially announced.
In **, people with keen insight are able to connect all the clues in series, **future development trends. Recently, the news about the possible fall of Jang Song-thaek has attracted widespread attention, and it is a major event for both North Korea and South Korea, which is concerned about the situation in North Korea, and many people have conducted in-depth analysis and speculation about it.
One of South Korea's speculations is based on urgent news from the Korean Intelligence Agency that North Korea's ambassador to Cuba Chun Young-jin and North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia Daniel Zhang Chul were recently recalled by North Korea.
Although these two incidents seem to have nothing to do with Jang Song-taek, both of them are related to Jang Song-taek and were recalled at the same time, most likely because North Korea wants to purge Jang Song-thaek's forces.
The new copy could be: Recent rumors about the possible fall of Jang Song-taek have raised eyebrows, while also reminding people of another incident that happened at the end of November.
At that time, two deputy ministers of the Ministry of Labor Administration of North Korea, both of whom had close ties to Jang Song-thaek, were publicly executed. In the aftermath of the incident, South Korea convened an emergency symposium on December 4 to discuss whether Jang Song-thaek would fall.
At the symposium, in addition to pointing out that Jang Song-taek's cronies had been purged, another ** put forward another speculation: that is, in 2013, the number of public appearances of Jang Song-taek was greatly reduced.
After Kim Jong-il's death, Jang Song-thaek became an indispensable figure by Kim Jong-un's side. He has always followed Kim Jong-un on various occasions in his attendance. According to statistics, in 2012, Jang Song-thaek accompanied Kim Jong-un to more public events than all North Koreas**.
However, in 2013, the main figure around Kim Jong-un became Choe Ryong-hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the People's Army, while Jang Song-thaek dropped to third place. This suggests that Kim Jong-un's relationship with Jang Song-thaek has become estranged.
As a result, many people believe that Jang Song-taek is about to lose ground. However, no one can be sure of the outcome until the official announcement of the DPRK. After all, Jang Song-thaek is a high-ranking and powerful man in North Korea, and Kim Jong-un's uncle, and he has also had the experience of "reusing crimes", and it is unclear whether he will be safe and sound this time.
Before December 7, there was no official response from North Korean officials, but when North Korean TV revisited the documentary of Kim Jong-un's inspection of the troops, all the footage of Jang Song-thaek was cut, which seemed to indicate that a political storm was coming, and North Korea may usher in large-scale changes.
In the early morning of December 9, the DPRK official issued an official statement announcing that Jang Song-thaek had committed anti-party and counter-revolutionary acts, and that he would be immediately dismissed from all posts and expelled from the party. In addition, North Korean television also recorded the scene of the meeting, so that the people of the whole country could see the picture of Jang Song-thaek being forcibly taken away at the meeting.
On December 12, Jang Song-thaek was tried by a special military tribunal in North Korea, pleading guilty to "subversion of state power." In the end, the court sentenced him to death, which was immediately executed.
This member of the core of North Korean politics has gone from power to the opposition to death. His story teaches us that ambition can be a person's motivation, but if it is overinflated, it will make a big mistake driven by desire, and in the end it will only lead to self-destruction.
Let us learn from this lesson how to balance our ambitions and desires. This article was originally written by "Ruijian History", welcome to pay attention, and have more interaction with me in order to receive the article push as soon as possible.