People watch a live TV news program showing that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's uncle Jang Song Thaek(67) second from right, is escorted by military officers during a trial in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. North Korea said Friday that it had executed Jang as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader's former mentor, long considered the country's No. 2 official. The letters on the left top, read "North Korea Executed Jang Song Thaek after trial."
A specially-convened military tribunal ruled Jang "human scum" and a "wicked political careerist, trickster and traitor for all ages in the name of the revolution and the people and ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it.
"The decision was immediately executed."
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