According to AFP, Hyon Yong-Chol, the North Korean defense minister was executed with an anti-aircraft machine gun that may have been the ZU-2 14.5 millimeter weapon;
In a briefing Wednesday to a parliamentary committee, Han Ki-Beom, the deputy director of NIS, said hundreds of people witnessed the execution of defence minister Hyon Yong-Chol, which was believed to have been carried out around April 30 at a military academy in northern Pyongyang.
Han told lawmakers that intelligence sources suggested Han was shot to pieces using an anti-aircraft gun firing 14.5mm calibre rounds.
Such a violent method of execution has been cited in various unconfirmed reports as being reserved for senior officials who the leadership wishes to make examples of.
It’s been reported that Hyon was executed because he fell asleep during a rally.
Here’s a demonstration of the 14.5mm DShK 1938 in an anti-tank configuration.
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43 responses to “North Korean Defense Chief executed with ZU-2”
“That’s gonna leave a mark!”
😀 😀 😀
As Grandpa (and apparently NDtBF’s as well–shit) used to say, if you’re gonna smoke somebody, use enough gun to get the job done right…
Yeh, the little fat turd is killing off his leadership, out queer skinny turd is firing all his leadership!!
He whacked another guy with a mortar…”Hey, dear Leader wants you to go stand on that X over there…after you are mission complete, everything will be okay with him…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9630509/North-Korean-army-minister-executed-with-mortar-round.html
“If you catch, you can keep it!” (A great National Lampoon Radio Hour segment BTW)
“catch it” Damn, we need an edit feature here…
Rooster: Why, by God, Little Kim, that’s a 14.5mm DShK! You’re no bigger than a corn nubbin, what’re you doing with all this machine gun?
Little Kim: It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Hyon Yong-Chol with it if the law fails to do so.
Rooster: Well, this’ll sure get the job done if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim.
No Texas Rangers need apply.
Little Kim asks Rooster: Why did they hang him so high?
Rooster: Possibly in the belief it would make him more dead.
Same principle application. The bigger the machine gun, the more dead you are.
“Such a violent method of execution has been cited in various unconfirmed reports as being reserved for senior officials who the leadership wishes to make examples of.”
Yeah, I’d say that he was made into a great many examples. I wonder if attendees were given an example to take home with them.
Since everybody in that country is starving to death, maybe the scraped up the pieces of corpse to be made into a stew.
“Congratulations, comrade! You have been promoted!”
“Shit.”
Caligula in training? Wonder how long before someone in the inner circle takes Kimmie boy out? Dude is nucking futs!
I see it as a valuable service to the rest of humanity, just as Stalin’s officer purges would have worked out, but for that one little wrinkle: World War II.
If you had names of the inner circle I bet you could have some fun on your chosen social media spreading rumours and trying to get them incinerated, blown up or otherwise deceased…
kinda gives new meaning to “swatting”
I don’t get how these guys (Stalin, Pol Pot, Ceausescu, the Kims) stay around long in the first place. If you’re near them and in a position of power, don’t you know you’re screwed? Why not act, ahem, preemptively?
Not that I’m shedding any tears.
Well, that would take a conspiracy, which means someone has to approach someone else with the BIG IDEA. And that’s a problem. No one wants to take that chance and be moved up to “immediate” on the execution schedule, along with his wife, children, extended family and pet goldfish.
Living under a Communist dictatorship is apparently unreal. I don’t think we can understand.
http://www.302aw.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123025632
I think he is trying to send a subtle message…not exactly a cost effective one, but a message all the same.
I started to say if that’s your idea of subtle…but at least it wasn’t being torn apart by half-starved animals.
Notice:
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Thank God that Jonn isn’t that harsh on us when we screw up here!
You know who else is apparently dozing off too at TAH??
/You posted an article about an execution using anti-aircraft gunfire, twice. You must like executions using anti-aircraft gunfire.
We’re just checking to see if you’re staying awake.
Jonn, yer killin’ me. (smile)
It’s just twice the fun, that’s all.
They must have really had it in for this guy. Otherwise they could have handed him a grenade, pulled the pin, and cautioned him to stay awake. That worked in basic during the CBR phase when one of our guys dozed off.
Surprised he didn’t use his dads preferred method of execution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM
I wonder if they will try out the “frozen pineapple sideways” sometime.
The machinegun in the video is a 12.7mm DsHk.
Didn’t this moron have his uncle executed last year in a, shall we say, “unusual” way? By having him fed to starving dogs?
I’ve heard of thinking outside the box, but this is ridiculous.
Great news. I don’t want anyone who supports a tyrannical dictator to die peacefully in their sleep. Goes double for the actual tyrant.
And the American left remains perpetually outraged at police departments while for the most part, whistling past human rights violations and things like this that are so beyond the pale. They don’t have the stones to direct their outrage and protests at the North Koreans or at least dedicate their time and energy at the real villains in our world.
I mean- executing a senior official who fell asleep in a briefing with a weapon system that left just about enough of him to scrape off the pavement with a spoon and put into a matchbox…it’s a technique, I suppose.
Obiden was asleep in one of obozo’s fiasco’s, its a wonder obozo didn’t feed him to the fish!
@Climb to Glory:
“Hans Brix…OH NO! Heya Hans…how ya doing?”
Had to be done…I’ve seen that scene a thousand times and I get the giggles on each and every one. Well played.
“You breaking my balls, Hans…you’re breaking my balls.”
http://blognumismatico.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ha-ha-nelson-simpsons-nelson-ha-ha-93-p.jpg
Former ISAF commander ret. GEN Dave McKiernan dozed off one day while he was riding w/ SecDef Gates in their armored SUV. Reportedly, the general hadn’t slept in almost 2 days. No firing squad. The general eventually ended up resigning (ok, he was fired) & retired (replaced by Stan McChrystal).
How can North Korea be ready to go to war with the US and South Korea when they’re always using their ammo stockpiles up on their own people? And yeah, other than sneering at us, the lefties will stay silent about this.
Dennis Rodman must be proud… now THAT’S a piercing!!!!
That’s a 12.7 in the video. The 14.5 does not have the pancake muzzle brake. It uses either a cone attenuator, or a bare muzzle.
If I was executed every time I nodded off in a staff call I would have been blown up, burned up and shot to shit more times than Wile E. Coyote…
Allow me to send him my condolence RIP (REST IN PISS)
Sam
Where The Tall Corn Grows