The Great Successor remains firm but fair.

So sad, if true.  Who could ever forget her classic hit song "Excellent Horse-like Lady"?

Another good Kim Jong Un story dies as ‘executed’ girlfriend lives

from the UK telegraph:

When it comes to North Korea, it’s easy to conflate the real with the surreal. In this terrain, truth is scarce. Truth is ambiguous. Truth often does not matter.On Aug. 29, 2013, the conservative South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo carried a striking story about Kim Jong Un and a woman he had purportedly had an affair with. Her name was Hyon Song-wol. She was a singer. And Kim had executed her.The story, hinging on unnamed “sources in China,” claimed Hyon was killed because she and other well-known musicians had sold pornography of themselves having sex. They were also purportedly caught with “Bibles in their possession” and “treated as political dissidents.”Sex. Murder. Suppression of Christianity. North Korea.This story had legs.That same day, the Wire, the Huffington Post, and the Telegraph pumped out aggregations beside images of an exultant Kim Jong Un and a demure Korean woman. The feeding frenzy had a half-life of several days, hitting its apogee when the Daily Dot uploaded a video of “three Korean women in leotards dancing along to tinny Western music.” The online publication mulled whether that video was indeed the alleged pornography that got Hyon axed.Last weekend, however, Kim Jong Un’s now-executed porn star former lover rose from the dead to give a speech — in uniform, sans leotard — at a national artists’ meeting.

May 16 2014:

All hail the benevelence of the Great Successor!

Marine Condron wrote:

All hail the benevelence of the Great Successor!

Well, let's not get carried away with that.

Fair enough. I suppose not killing someone for not doing anything wrong isn't much of a feat.

Still firm, fairness uncertain. I don't think the defence chief was a shrinking violet though. The pedant in me wants to know if it was a single shot from a large calibre or a shredding from a multi-barrel weapon.