 Even if you are one of the most trusted aides to North Korea's supreme leaders, your life could come to a sudden end. Sung Yoon Lee is a Korea expert at the Wilson Center. He says this account fits a pattern because Kim Jong Un has had numerous other officials and even some of his own relatives executed after they fell out of favor. The power of the supreme leader to play God in a way, to decide who lives and who dies on a whim,