Ho Chi Minh City(Vietnam): US Secretary of State John Kerry stated in an interview to ABC news that North Korea's Kim Jong Un was a reckless and ruthless person.
Kerry compared Kim Jong Un to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and said that the execution of Jan Song Thaek is a step that proves Kim Jong Un's insecurity about power as Jan Song Thaek waa the second most powerful man of North Korea.
On the execution Kerry said “It really reminded me of a video that we saw of Saddam Hussein doing the same thing, having people plucked out of an audience, and people sitting there sweating, and nobody daring to move or do anything”.
Kerry said that the execution was not the first under Kim's rule and pointed to the urgency of addressing the North Korean nuclear state.
Kerry said “It tells us a significant amount about the instability internally of the regime, with the numbers of executions,” Kerry said. “It's an ominous sign of the instability and of the danger that does exist.”
