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Daily Double: The Path to Power in Pyongyang

January 3rd, 2012 Headsman

With the death a few weeks ago of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il, his son Kim Jong-un “inherits great comrade Kim Jong-il’s ideology, leadership, character, virtues, grit and courage” and, of course, power.

While North Korea is notoriously opaque when it comes to reading the political tea leaves, it’s at least arguable that Kim Jong-un’s path to power has been set up over the preceding months by a flurry of executions.

For our next two posts, we note two whose politics were wrong enough to die this time last year.

• Jan. 3, 2011: Two leaflet-readers
• Early Jan., 2011: Ryu Kyong

On this day..

• 1963: Tankeu Noé, Cameroon guerrilla - 2020
• 1667: Pedro Bohorquez, Inca Hualpa - 2019
• 1812: George Hart, Gotham batterer - 2018
• 68 or 69: Locusta, infamous poisoner - 2017
• Feast Day of St. Gordius - 2016
• 1945: An unfortunate woman, name and nationality unknown - 2015
• 1898: Doc Tanner, Copper River gold rusher - 2014
• 1661: The effigy and books of Giuseppe Francesco Borri - 2013
• 2011: Two leaflet-readers - 2012
• 1786: Elizabeth Wilson, her reprieve too late - 2011
• 1645: John Hotham the Elder - 2010
• 1946: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw - 2009
• 2002: Sani Yakubu - 2008

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