 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,