"If confirmed, Choe's killing will be the latest in a series of executions said to have been ordered by the young leader since he took power in late 2011. The Associated Press reported last month that Kim had so far ordered the execution of about 70 officials "in a reign of terror" — far more than his late father Kim Jong Il, who executed about 10 people in his first years in power.
In May, a report emerged that Hyon Yong-chol, North Korea's defense minister, had apparently been executed, possibly with an anti-aircraft gun, in front of hundreds of people at a military school in the capital of Pyongyang for disloyalty to Kim.
In December 2013, Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek — once considered North Korea's second most powerful man — was executed for alleged treason. Reports followed the next month that all direct relatives of Jang, who was married to Kim Jong Il's sister, had also been put to death."
This is what happens when you become a land of men rather than a land of laws.
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