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The beheaded body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle was shown to senior regime officials, US President Donald Trump said in a book due to be published next week.
“He killed his uncle and put his body on display,” Donald Trump told Bob Woodward, in a statement that appears in the book “Fury” that this journalist will publish on September 15.
“Yours the head was cut off and placed on the chest, “Trump explained.
Jang Song-Thaek, the North Korean leader’s uncle by marriage, then considered the regime’s unofficial number two, was executed in December 2013 for having “betrayed the nation.”
North Korea never specified how Jang Song-Thaek was executed, as various accounts, all particularly heinous and often contradictory, circulated in the media.
The version of the US president, who seems to have wanted to show his proximity to the North Korean leader in this way, is the first to refer to the beheading of Kim Jong-un’s uncle.
“Kim tells me everything. He told me everything,” Trump said in remarks that appear in Bob Woodward’s book.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un met three times, the first time during a summit in June 2018 in Singapore.
However, the negotiations for the denuclearization of North Korea have evolved very little, having stalled after a second summit in February 2019 in Hanoi, which does not prevent the US president from highlighting his good relations with Kim Jong. United Nations
“He wrote me beautiful letters. They are beautiful letters. We fell in love”, said the President of the United States in September 2018.
