Uncle of North Korea leader removed from office

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

The KCNA said the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) held an enlarged meeting and adopted a decision on stripping Jang of all posts, depriving him of all titles and expelling him and removing his name from the WPK.