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  John Kerry calls Kim Jong-un 'reckless and insecure' over uncle's execution

  15 Dec 2013:

  Secretary of state pointed to the urgency of addressing the North Korean nuclear state amid the internal instability of regime

• Kim Jong-un's aunt retains position of influence after husband's downfall

  15 Dec 2013: Kim Kyong-hui is named as member of prestigious committee after Jang Song-thaek was denounced as traitor and executed

• Soldiers advance to Pyongyang - a picture from the past

  Picture, 14 Dec 2013:

  The Japanese occupation of Korea ended after the Second World War. American troops then occupied the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and the Soviets secured the north. Tensions intensified between the two sides which led to an invasion by the north and the start of the Korean War in 1950

• Eyewitness: Pyongyang, North Korea

  Picture, 14 Dec 2013:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• North Korea's appetite for executions remains undiminished

  13 Dec 2013: Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea routinely uses torture, incarceration and capital punishment to stifle dissent

• Execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle raises fears of instability in North Korea

  13 Dec 2013: Experts say purge of Jang Song-thaek may suggest powerful groups are jockeying for power in secretive state

• The execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle signals the hardliners are back

  13 Dec 2013: Jasper Becker: A massive purge may now be under way, with anyone connected to Jang Song-thaek in peril. Hopes of an end to the North Korea crisis have been dealt a serious blow

• The real reason North Korea purged Jang Song-thaek remains a mystery

  13 Dec 2013: Experts know far more than they did about daily life in North Korea, but very little about the country's elite politics

• Death penalty statistics, country by country

  13 Dec 2013:

  After the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle, the brutality of North Korea's regime has once again come under the international spotlight. In a broader context, is the attention warranted? Find out who uses the death penalty today - and see how it compares to 2007

• 'Despicable human scum': North Korea's statement on execution – in full

  13 Dec 2013:

  North Korea's state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency has explained the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle

• North Korea executes Kim Jong-un's uncle as 'traitor'

  13 Dec 2013: Jang Song-thaek, previously one of the country's most powerful men, accused of plotting to overthrow state

• North Korea accused Jang Song-thaek of being 'careerist and trickster'

  13 Dec 2013: • Pyongyang statement 'justifies' execution of Kim's uncle
  • Jang accused of plotting to overthrow leadership
  • Described as 'despicable human scum … worse than a dog'

• Kim Jong-un's uncle Jang Song-thaek executed, say North Korean state media

  13 Dec 2013:

  Announcement follows accusations of corruption, drug use, gambling, womanising and leading 'dissolute and depraved life'

• A cannabis map of the world – interactive

  Interactive, 11 Dec 2013:

  The pussyfooting is over. Uruguay has become the first country in the world to re-legalise cannabis. You'll have to be a Uruguayan citizen, over 18 and registered, and not grow, sell or buy more than your allotted monthly quota, but – from next spring – grow it and buy it you can. Uruguay joins the list of places with a unique relationship to the cannabis plant.

• North Korea: wicked uncle

  10 Dec 2013:

  Editorial: China's interests represent the ultimate constraint on North Korea … Perhaps Jang pointed out the need to consider them once too often

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