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Horrifying new details of how Kim Jong-Un's regime eliminates its internal enemies have been revealed - including the alleged murder of his own uncle.

Defectors have told of "graphic and jarring" torture and murder methods used under his regime, it is reported.

Kang Cheol-Hwan, a North Korean defector, claims witnesses told him that in 2013, two men closely linked to Kim Jong-Un's uncle Jang Song-thaek faced a firing squad of eight anti-aircraft guns.

The two men allegedly had lumps of iron stuffed into their mouths because Kim had not trusted them.

And Kim's uncle Jang was forced to watch the murder of his colleagues, it is claimed.

Blood was then poured on his face before he fainted, the defector told CNN.

The uncle was then executed himself later that year with an anti-aircraft gun, according to reports.

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Kang also claimed a top police official, also close to the North Korean leader's uncle, was killed with a flame thrower.

The police official was burned alive because Kim personally hated him, it is alleged.

Kang claimed another official and his wife were stripped naked and mauled to death by a pack of dogs.

Some of these latest claims are part of a new report from the North Korea Strategy Center, which looks at human rights issues.

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The news comes after it emerged Kim Jong Un told the US secretary of state that he does not want his children to live with the burden of nuclear weapons.

This is according to a former CIA officer involved in high-level diplomacy over North Korea's weapons, who made the claims about the leader on Saturday.

Kim is said to have made the comments to the US secretary of state Mike Pompeo during a visit to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, in April last year.

This is while he was laying the groundwork for the historic first summit between the North's leader and President Donald Trump in June in Singapore, former CIA official Andrew Kim said.

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When asked whether he was willing to end his nuclear programme, Andrew Kim quoted the North Korean leader as saying: "I'm a father and a husband. And I have children.

"And I don't want my children to carry the nuclear weapon on their back their whole life."

"That was his answer," said Andrew Kim of the Korean leader.

In their Singapore summit, Kim and Trump pledged to work towards peace between their countries and for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

But little progress has been made since then and they are believed to be meeting again in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday.