{"id":4378,"date":"2014-01-04T01:53:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T01:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2014-01-04T01:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T01:53:46","slug":"n-korean-leader-redefines-hideous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean leader redefines &#8216;hideous&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>There is hideous conduct.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the kind of act being reported out of North Korea involving the late uncle of dictator Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s true, then we have seen a new standard for barbarism.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/03\/22156917-kim-jong-uns-executed-uncle-was-eaten-alive-by-120-hungry-dogs-report?lite<\/p>\n<p>The report says the despot&#8217;s uncle was stripped naked and thrown into a cage where he was eaten by 120 starving dogs. That&#8217;s how the kid executed the husband of his aunt, reportedly for crimes against the state.<\/p>\n<p>Jang Song Thaek had been taken into custody reportedly for plotting against Kim Jong Un. He was killed apparently days after his arrest. Reports didn&#8217;t confirm a trial of any consequence, merely a death sentence carried out with extreme dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials haven&#8217;t confirmed the reports through any independent sources. However, NBC.com says the reports are coming from sources with close ties to China&#8217;s ruling communist party, which apparently is about the only friendly government left on the planet for North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>To think we actually want to start <em>talking<\/em> to this animal.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to jump to any conclusions until the world knows the facts &#8212; if they can be ascertained in that super-secret society.<\/p>\n<p>This, however, falls into that category of despicable act that somehow shouldn&#8217;t totally surprise anyone.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is hideous conduct. And then there is the kind of act being reported out of North Korea involving the late uncle of dictator Kim Jong Un. If it&#8217;s true, then we have seen a new standard for barbarism. http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/03\/22156917-kim-jong-uns-executed-uncle-was-eaten-alive-by-120-hungry-dogs-report?lite The report says the despot&#8217;s uncle was stripped naked and thrown into a cage where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">N. Korean leader redefines &#8216;hideous&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2681,3335,3546],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-peoples-republic-of-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}