22 September, 2017
Kim Jong-un's regime publicly executed 11 musicians accused of making a pornographic video by strapping them to the barrels of anti-aircraft guns and blowing them to pieces, a North Korean defector has claimed.
Even top military brass live in constant fear in North Korea said a defector who describes execution by anti-aircraft guns, and how top earners supplement meager wages (40 cents a month) with huge bribes.
In a horrifying account given to the United Kingdom -based Daily Mirror in Seoul, South Korea, the 26-year-old woman, whose late father was a senior officer in Kim's regime, declared "despite our privilege, we were scared".
She added: "Yes, they have to sleep with him and they cannot make a mistake or object because they could very easily simply disappear". "I saw awful things in Pyongyang", Hee Yeon said. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere.
Hee Yeon's 51-year-old father died five years ago, so she fled North Korea in 2015 and made it to Seoul, South Korea in 2016 - with her younger brother and her mother.
Hee said that Kim likes "Bird's Nest Soup" the most. If she stayed in her native country, the threat of Kim Jong-un's cruelty would remain ever-present in her life.
However, despite being so meager, her father's wage is a rarity in the communist regime. He supplemented his low wages with sizeable bribes. "Although they are theoretically entitled to a salary, they usually are not compensated".
Observers have reported that recent cryptocurrency heists appear to tie to the Pyongyang-based government of North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, (DPRK).
She told The Mirror, how officials came to her school to pick out teen girls with "straight legs" to work at the chubby dictator's homes.
What is more, despite the poverty that the 25 million or so North Koreans live in, Kim apparently hides out in "exquisite bolt-holes" which come with swimming pools, lovely gardens and fountains.
North Koreans are brought up with state propaganda that elevates its leader to an nearly god-like status.
She said: "They learn to serve him food like caviar and extremely rare delicacies".
She noted that growing up, she was told that Kim was "like a god", but when she met him, she found him "terrifying, really scary, nothing god-like about him".
The 26-year-old spoke out as Jong-Un continues on his risky nuclear crusade with Donald Trump over his missile testing.
Kim looks up at the sky at what is said to have been a missile launch in August.
But Kim is ratcheting up the prospect of war not from a position of power, but because of his own sense of insecurity, said Hee.
Hee Yeon, whose named was changed to protect her identity, said after he is done with them, he gets rid of them or marries them off to top officials.
