N. Korea purges leader's uncle

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on July 25, 2013, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (far L) and Jang Song Thaek (2nd from L), Kim's uncle and a vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, walking in a cemetery in Pyongyang for soldiers who died during the Korean War. North Korea said Dec. 9, 2013, that Jang, widely seen as the second most powerful figure in the country after Kim, has been stripped of all his posts for committing "anti-party" and "counter-revolutionary factional acts."

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