North Korea’s execution of the man in charge of its relationship with top ally China may reduce the chance that the isolated nation adopts the embrace of markets that has seen its neighbor build a middle class.
Jang Song Thaek, 67, a conduit to China who oversaw special economic zones on the two countries’ border, was executed for plotting against Kim Jong Un’s regime, according to a North Korean statement yesterday. Jang, who was Kim’s uncle and a top deputy, traveled to China repeatedly, meeting then-President Hu Jintao and former Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing in August 2012 and negotiating the deal for the zones.
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