Via NBC World News:

According to KCNA, the uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was guilty of “attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state.”
On Monday, the isolated regime announced that Jang had been dismissed from his vaunted official post for a string of criminal acts, including corruption, womanizing and drug-taking.

Rodong Sinmun – Yonhap via Reuters
Jang Song Thaek is dragged into court by uniformed personnel in this picture published in a North Korean newspaper.

“All the crimes committed by the accused were proved in the course of hearing and were admitted by him,” KCNA stated on Thursday — in a report that claimed that “people throughout the country broke in to angry shouts” when they heard of Jang’s alleged crimes.

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