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The beheaded body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle has been exposed for viewing by senior Pyongyang officials, US President Donald Trump said in a new book, AFP reported on Friday.
“He killed his uncle and placed his body on the stairs” of an official building, Donald Trump told investigative journalist Bob Woodward, whose new work, “Rage,” will be published Sept. 15.
“They cut off his head and put it on his chest,” the US president continued, according to excerpts from the book that AFP could consult.
Jang Song-Thaek, the North Korean leader’s alliance uncle, then considered the regime’s number two, was executed in December 2013, officially because he “betrayed the nation,” writes Agerpres.
North Korea has never said how Jang Song-Thaek was executed, several versions, all extremely heinous and often contradictory, circulate in the media.
The version of the US president – who seems to have wanted to show his closeness to the North Korean leader – is the first to refer to a beheading of Kim Jong Un’s uncle by alliance.
Kim “tells me everything. He told me everything,” says the president of the United States in this book, which is a sequel to the book “Fear. Trump in the White House,” published by Woodward in 2018.
Investigative journalist Bob Woodward received 25 “never before published” letters written by the two leaders, according to US publisher Simon & Schuster.
In his letters, “Kim describes the connection between the two leaders as worthy of a ‘fantasy movie,’ as the leaders launch into an extraordinary diplomatic minuet,” the editor said on the Amazon book page.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met three times, the first time on the occasion of a historic summit held in June 2018 in Singapore.
However, the negotiations on the denuclearization of North Korea have made no progress at all and are at a standstill after the failure of the second summit, in February 2019, in Hanoi.
Bob Woodward is known for his revelations on the Watergate affair, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
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