Traitor Jang Song Thaek Executed
Upon hearing the report on the enlarged
meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers'
Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country
broke into angry shouts that a stern judgment of the revolution should
be meted out to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional
elements. Against the backdrop of these shouts rocking the country, a
special military tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security was
held on December 12 against Jang Song Thaek, traitor for all ages.
The accused Jang brought together
undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day
factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as
attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and
despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our
Party and state.
The tribunal examined Jang's crimes.
All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him.
A decision of the special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK was read out at the trial.
Every sentence of the decision served as
sledge-hammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and
people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary
factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.
The accused is a traitor to the nation
for all ages who perpetrated anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional
acts in a bid to overthrow the leadership of our Party and state and
the socialist system.
Jang was appointed to responsible posts
of the Party and state thanks to the deep political trust of President
Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and received benevolence from them
more than any others from long ago.
He held higher posts than before and received deeper trust from Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, in particular.
The political trust and benevolence shown by the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu were something he hardly deserved.
It is an elementary obligation of a human being to repay trust with sense of obligation and benevolence with loyalty.
However, despicable human scum Jang, who
was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in
betrayal of such profound trust and warmest paternal love shown by the
Party and the leader for him.
From long ago, Jang had a dirty political
ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
were alive. But, reading their faces, Jang had an axe to grind and
involved himself in double-dealing. He began revealing his true colors
in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was
replaced, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his
wild ambition.
Jang committed such an unpardonable
thrice-cursed treason as overtly and covertly standing in the way of
settling the issue of succession to the leadership with an axe to grind
when a very important issue was under discussion to hold respected Kim
Jong Un in high esteem as the only successor to Kim Jong Il in
reflection of the unanimous desire and will of the entire Party and army
and all people.
When his cunning move proved futile and
the decision that Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central
Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in reflection of the
unanimous will of all Party members, service personnel and people was
proclaimed at the historic Third Conference of the WPK, making all
participants break into enthusiastic cheers that shook the conference
hall, he behaved so arrogantly and insolently as unwillingly standing up
from his seat and half-heartedly clapping, touching off towering
resentment of our service personnel and people.
Jang confessed that he behaved so at that
time as a knee-jerk reaction as he thought that if Kim Jong Un's base
and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a
stumbling block in his way of grabbing the power of the Party and state.
When Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly
and untimely to our sorrow, Jang began working in real earnest to
realize his long-cherished greed for power.
Abusing the honor of often accompanying
Kim Jong Un during his field guidance, Jang tried hard to create
illusion about him by projecting himself internally and externally as a
special being on a par with the headquarters of the revolution.
In a bid to rally a group of
reactionaries to be used by him for toppling the leadership of the Party
and state, he let the undesirable and alien elements including those
who had been dismissed and relieved of their posts after being severely
punished for disobeying the instructions of Kim Jong Il and kowtowing to
Jang work in a department of the Central Committee of the WPK and
organs under it in a crafty manner.
Jang did serious harm to the youth
movement in our country, being part of the group of renegades and
betrayers in the field of youth work bribed by enemies. Even after they
were disclosed and purged by the resolute measure of the Party, he
patronized those cat's paws and let them hold important posts of the
Party and state.
He let Ri Ryong Ha, flatterer, work with
him since the 1980s. He took Ri about whenever he was transferred to
other posts and systematically promoted him up to the post of first vice
department director of the Party Central Committee though he had been
purged for his factional act of denying the unitary leadership of the
Party. Jang thus made Ri his trusted stooge.
Jang let his confidants and flatterers
who had been fired for causing an important case of denying the unitary
leadership of the Party work in his department and organs under it in a
crafty manner in a few years. He systematically rallied ex-convicts,
those problematic in their past careers and discontented elements around
him and ruled over them as sacred and inviolable being.
He worked hard to put all affairs of the
country under his control, massively increasing the staff of his
department and organs under it, and stretch his tentacles to ministries
and national institutions. He converted his department into a "little
kingdom" which no one dares touch.
He was so impudent as to prevent the
Taedonggang Tile Factory from erecting a mosaic depicting Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il and a monument to field guidance given by them.
Moreover, Jang turned down the unanimous request of the service
personnel of a unit of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces to
have the autograph letter sent by Kim Jong Un to the unit carved on a
natural granite and erected with good care in front of the building of
its command. He was so reckless as to instruct the unit to erect it in a
shaded corner.
He committed such anti-party acts as
systematically denying the Party's line and policies, its organizational
will, in the past period. These acts were a revelation of deliberate
and sinister attempt to create extreme illusion and idolization of him
by making him appear as a special being who can overrule either issues
decided by the Party or its line.
He went so rude as to take in the middle
even those things associated with intense loyalty and sincerity of our
army and people towards the Party and the leader and distribute them
among his confidants in an effort to take credit to himself for doing
so. This behavior was to create illusion about him.
Due to his persistent moves to create
illusion and idolization of him his flatterers and followers in his
department and organs under it praised him as "comrade No. 1." They went
the lengths of denying even the Party's instructions to please him at
any cost.
Jang established such a heterogeneous
work system in his department and the relevant organs as considering
what he said as more important than the Party's policies. Consequently,
his trusted henchmen and followers made no scruple of perpetrating such
counter-revolutionary act as disobeying the order of the Supreme
Commander of the Korean People's Army.
The revolutionary army will never pardon
all those who disobey the order of the Supreme Commander and there will
be no place for them to be buried even after their death.
Dreaming a fantastic dream to become
premier at an initial stage to grab the supreme power of the Party and
state, Jang made his department put major economic fields of the country
under its control in a bid to disable the Cabinet. In this way he
schemed to drive the economy of the country and people's living into an
uncontrollable catastrophe.
He put inspection and supervision organs
belonging to the Cabinet under his control in defiance of the new state
machinery established by Kim Jong Il at the First Session of the Tenth
Supreme People's Assembly. Jang put all issues related to all structural
works handled by the Cabinet under his control and had the final say on
them, making it impossible for the Cabinet to properly perform its
function and role as the economic command. They included the issues of
setting up and disorganizing committees, ministries and national
institutions and provincial, city and county-level organs, organizing
units for foreign trade and for earning foreign money and structures
overseas and fixing living allowances.
When he attempted to make a false report
to the Party without having agreement with the Cabinet and the relevant
ministry on the issue related to the state construction supervision
organization, officials concerned expressed just opinion that his
behavior was contrary to the construction law worked out by Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il. Hearing this, he made the reckless remark that "the
rewriting of the construction law would solve the problem."
Abusing his authority, he undermined the
work system related to the construction of the capital city established
by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, reducing the construction and
building-materials bases to such bad shape little short of debris in a
few years. He weakened the ranks of technicians and skilled workers at
the units for the construction of the capital city in a crafty manner
and transferred major construction units to his confidants so that they
might make money. In this way he deliberately disturbed the construction
in Pyongyang.
He instructed his confidants to sell coal
and other precious underground resources at random. Consequently, they
were saddled with huge debts, deceived by brokers. Jang made no scruple
of committing such act of treachery in May last as selling off the land
of the Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country for a period
of five decades under the pretext of paying those debts.
It was none other than Jang who
wirepulled behind scene Pak Nam Gi, traitor for all ages, to recklessly
issue hundreds of billions of won in 2009, sparking off serious economic
chaos and disturbing the people's mind-set.
Jang encouraged money-making under
various pretexts to secure funds necessary for gratifying his political
greed and was engrossed in irregularities and corruption. He thus took
the lead in spreading indolent, careless and undisciplined virus in our
society.
After collecting precious metals since
the construction of Kwangbok Street in the 1980s, he set up a secret
organ under his control and took a fabulous amount of funds from a bank
and purchased precious metals in disregard of the state law. He thus
committed such anti-state criminal acts as creating a great confusion in
financial management system of the state.
He let the decadent capitalist lifestyle
find its way to our society by distributing all sorts of pornographic
pictures among his confidants since 2009. He led a dissolute and
depraved life, squandering money wherever he went.
He took at least 4.6 million Euro from
his secret coffers and squandered it in 2009 alone and enjoyed himself
in casino in a foreign country. These facts alone clearly show how
corrupt and degenerate he was.
Jang was so reckless with his greed for
power that he persistently worked to stretch his tentacles even to the
People's Army with a foolish calculation that he would succeed in
staging a coup if he mobilized the army.
He fully revealed his despicable true
colors as a traitor for all ages in the course of questioning by
uttering as follows: "I attempted to trigger off discontent among
service personnel and people that the present regime does not take any
measure despite the fact that the economy of the country and people's
living are driven into catastrophe. Comrade supreme leader is the target
of the coup."
As regards the means and methods for
staging the coup, Jang said: "I was going to stage the coup by using
high-ranking army officers who had close ties with me or by mobilizing
armed forces under the control of my confidants. I don't know well about
recently appointed high-ranking army officers but have some
acquaintances with those appointed in the past period. I thought the
army might join in the coup if the living of the people and service
personnel further deteriorate in the future. And I calculated that my
confidants in my department including Ri Ryong Ha and Jang Su Gil would
surely follow me and had a plan to use the one in charge of the people's
security organ as my confidant. It was my calculation that I might use
several others beside them."
Asked about the timing of the coup and
his plan to do after staging the coup, Jang answered: "I didn't fix the
definite time for the coup. But it was my intention to concentrate my
department and all economic organs on the Cabinet and become premier
when the economy goes totally bankrupt and the state is on the verge of
collapse in a certain period. I thought that if I solve the problem of
people's living to a certain measure by spending an enormous amount of
funds I have accumulated under various names after becoming premier, the
people and service personnel will shout 'hurrah' for me and I will
succeed in the coup in a smooth way."
Jang dreamed such a foolish dream that
once he seizes power by a base method, his despicable true colors as
"reformist" known to the outside world would help his "new government"
get "recognized" by foreign countries in a short span of time.
All facts go to clearly prove that Jang
is a thrice-cursed traitor without an equal in the world as he had
desperately worked for years to destabilize and bring down the DPRK and
grab the supreme power of the Party and state by employing all the most
cunning and sinister means and methods, pursuant to the "strategic
patience" policy and "waiting strategy" of the U.S. and the south Korean
puppet group of traitors.
The hateful and despicable nature of the
anti-party, anti-state and unpopular crimes committed by Jang was fully
disclosed in the course of the trial conducted at the special military
tribunal of the DPRK Ministry of State Security.
The era and history will eternally record
and never forget the shuddering crimes committed by Jang Song Thaek,
the enemy of the Party, revolution and people and heinous traitor to the
nation.
No matter how much water flows under the
bridge and no matter how frequently a generation is replaced by new one,
the lineage of Paektu will remain unchanged and irreplaceable.
Our Party, state, army and people do not know anyone except Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un.
Our service personnel and people will
never pardon all those who dare disobey the unitary leadership of Kim
Jong Un, challenge his absolute authority and oppose the lineage of Mt.
Paektu to an individual but bring them to the stern court of history
without fail and mercilessly punish them on behalf of the Party and
revolution, the country and its people, no matter where they are in
hiding.
The special military tribunal of the
Ministry of State Security of the DPRK confirmed that the state
subversion attempted by the accused Jang with an aim to overthrow the
people's power of the DPRK by ideologically aligning himself with
enemies is a crime punishable by Article 60 of the DPRK Criminal Code,
vehemently condemned him as a wicked political careerist, trickster and
traitor for all ages in the name of the revolution and the people and
ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it.
The decision was immediately executed.
Rodong Sinmun