What is Jang Song-thaek?
{{merge|Jang Sung-taek|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Jang Song-thaek | birth_date = 22 January 1946 | birth_place = [[Chongjin]], [[Soviet Civil Administration|Soviet North Korea]] | death_date = 12 December 2013 | death_place = [[Pyongyang]], [[North Korea]] | spouse = [[Kim Kyong-hui]] | children = 1 }} '''Jang Song-thaek''' was a [[North Korea|North Korean]] politician and [[General officer|general]]. Jang was the uncle of the [[Supreme Leader of North Korea|Supreme Leader]] of [[North Korea]] [[Kim Jong-un]] through his marriage to [[Kim Jong-il]]'s sister. During the final years of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il's life, Jang Song-thaek was believed to be the ''[[de facto]]'' ruler of North Korea until Kim-Jong un became Supreme Leader in [[2011]]. Jong and his wife had a daughter who was born in [[1977]]. She went to study in [[Paris]] but refused to return to North Korea and [[Suicide|killed herself]] in [[2006]]. In [[December]] [[2013]], the North Korean government accused Jang Song-thaek of not being loyal to the Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un (Jong Sang-Thaek's [[Nephew and niece|nephew]]). Jong Sang-thaek was then [[Execution|executed]] by [[Firing squad|shooting]] on the orders of Kim Jong-un.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-01-03|title=Kim Jong-un's executed uncle Jang Song Thaek 'stripped naked, fed to|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/kim-jong-un-s-executed-uncle-jang-song-thaek-stripped-naked-fed-120-dogs-officials-watched-9037109.html|access-date=2020-11-27|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-12|title=North Korea's Kim showed off executed uncle's headless body, Trump said|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/asia-pacific/north-korea-kim-uncle-trump/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204124043/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/12/asia-pacific/north-korea-kim-uncle-t