North Korea recalls ambassador to Malaysia
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North Korea’s ambassador to Malaysia, a relative of leader Kim Jong Un, has been recalled just days after the young supremo’s uncle was apparently ousted in a leadership purge, according to a report.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that it believed Kim’s uncle and political regent Jang Song Thaek had been removed and two associates executed.
Now Jang’s nephew, Jang Yong Chol, the North Korean ambassador to Malaysia, is believed to have been called back to Pyongyang, an intelligence source in Beijing told Yonhap news agency.
The ambassador’s wife and two sons were spotted yesterday before boarding an Air Koryo flight to Pyongyang in China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, Yonhap said, citing multiple witnesses.
It said the ambassador was believed to have been recalled earlier.
Jang Song Thaek’s apparent dismissal is particularly noteworthy given the crucial role he was seen as having played in securing Kim’s own succession after his father Kim Jong Il’s death.
The NIS assessment triggered a wave of conjecture as to why Kim had turned on the 67-year-old who helped put him on the throne, and what it said about the young leader’s grip on power.
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