The Chronicle

Kim’s killing ways seen by defector

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A NORTH Korean defector has revealed she saw 11 musicians “blown to bits” by anti-aircraft guns in an execution ordered by maniacal dictator Kim Jong-un.

Hee Yeon-lim, 26, daughter of a high-ranking soldier, fled to South Korea and recently told of the horrors she saw while part of the secretive regime’s inner circle.

Speaking with The Mirror in South Korea, she told of a time when she was pulled out of school to watch the slaughter of musicians accused of making a pornograph­ic video.

Ms Yeon-lim said she and her classmates were taken to a stadium at Pyongyang’s Military Academy, where each hooded and gagged victim was tied to the end of an anti-aircraft gun in front of some 10,000 spectators.

“The musicians just disappeare­d each time a gun was fired. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere,” she said.

Tanks drove over the pieces of the victims “to smash them into the ground until there was nothing left”.

When her father, Colonel Wui Yeon-lim, died at 51, she and her family fled to China in 2015 and then to South Korea last year.

The family paid people smugglers to drive them to China. All the way to the border, they bribed starving soldiers to let them through.

Despite her family’s privilege, Ms Yeon-lim said she witnessed many other “terrible things” in Pyongyang – including Kim’s use of teenage sex slaves.

Officials came to her school to pick out the “prettiest teen schoolgirl­s” to work at the dictator’s homes. If they refused they would “disappear”, she said.

A 2016 report estimated Kim had executed 340 people since taking power in 2011.

Nearly half were senior officers in his own government, military and the ruling Workers Party.

The punishment­s were for such “crimes” as having a “bad attitude”.

In May 2015, Kim had defence minister Hyon Yong-chol killed with an anti-aircraft gun in front of his own family.

In 2013, Kim’s uncle Jang Song-thaek was executed.

Paranoid Kim lives like an emperor fed caviar by his teen sex slaves as he orders executions.

The nuke-obsessed leader has effectivel­y imprisoned 25 million starving people.

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