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DPRK leader's uncle removed from office

Updated: 2013-12-09 06:50

(Xinhua)

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PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Monday Jang Song-thaek, uncle-in-law of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, was removed from all posts and expelled from the Workers' Party Korea for his "anti-Party and counterrevolutionary crime," the official news agency KCNA reported.

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