Report: Entertainers linked to Jang’s womanizing sent to ‘reformation’ prison camp

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has imprisoned 40 popular actors and actresses connected with Jang Song-Thaek, including a woman believed to have had affairs with his executed uncle, U.S.-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia said.

N. Korea's Kim Jong Un with Korean People's Army (KPA) officers after their performance at the 36th KPA Art Festival in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2013. /AFP — N. Korea’s Kim Jong Un with Korean People’s Army (KPA) officers after their performance at the 36th KPA Art Festival in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2013. /AFP

“About 40 entertainers, referred to as a group linked to Jang Song-Thaek, have been sent to Susung prison camp in Chongjin in North” on the east coast, a source was quoted as saying by the RFA.

The source said he was informed that entertainers belonging to such popular groups as the Chosun Art Film Studio, Pyongyang Circus Troupe and Mansudae Art Theater were taken to the prison facility on Jan. 17 in two trucks.

Among those imprisoned were Ryu Jin-A, a singer with the Moranbong Music Band who is known to be Jang’s “lover,” and Ri Ik-Sung, an actor with Chosun Art Film Studio believed to be involved in “procuring” actresses for Jang and officials close to him, the RFA said.

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