Defector tells of Kim Jong-Un’s paranoia, with dictator threatening to personally kill traitors with ‘bullet to the head’
Former top advisor reveals terrifying reality of being close to chubby North Korean despot
KIM Jong-Un is paranoid everyone is against him and threatened to personally kill all traitors with a bullet to the head, a former advisor has revealed.
The high level defector, who didn’t give his real name, painted a terrifying and unstable picture of the North Korean dictator.
The escapee – who goes by the fake name Kwak Seong – was a top aide to Kim.
But after serving in the State Security Department for some 40 years he eventually decided to flee the country.
Now, after having escaped the secretive police state, he told his former master was “subject to huge outbursts and threats to kill anyone who disobeyed him”.
During his time working for the government, Seong, 71, had the brutal task of stopping people from escaping the country – and hunting down those that got away.
And he told of the chubby tyrant’s rage when top a diplomat at the North Korean embassy in London defected.
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When the news reached Pyongyang, Seong said Kim ordered all his ambassadors back to the North Korean capital and “threatened to kill them all by personally putting a bullet through their head”.
Seong’s job was to organise the rounding up of those considered to be “enemies of the state” and sending them to the country’s notorious prison camps.
The defector described the camps as “dark, brutal places, run by men with a sadistic lust for torture and pain”.
But he eventually came to fear for his own safety after Kim’s paranoia led him to become suspicious of around him.
Earlier this year, a top official was executed by firing squad reportedly for slouching in a meeting.
Vice-premier for education Kim Yong-jin was riddled with bullets after being branded “an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator”, while two others were sent to the infamous labour camps.
And in 2013, the dictator executed his own uncle Jang Song-Thaek after a court found him guilty of treason and “attempting to overthrow the state”.
This year alone, some 64 “traitors” have been executed on Kim’s orders, as the despot implemented extra security measures for preventing assassination attempts using explosives and poison.
Now he says he realises what he had been doing was a “fallacy”, adding that North Korea was bound to “end in flames”.
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