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A defector who fled Kim Jong-Un’s inner circle has told how she witnessed first hand the brutality the dictator unleashes on his oppressed people.

Hee Yeon Lim risked her own life to lift the lid on the paranoid North Korean leader who casually orders the ­executions of anyone he deems to have crossed him or his party.

The 26-year-old spoke out as crazed Jong-Un heads on a dangerous nuclear collision course with Donald Trump over his provocative missile testing that could end in all-out war.

Hee Yeon lived a life of privilege in the capital Pyongyang as she was the daughter of an army colonel– but her closeness to the regime did not protect her from being exposed to the horrors the despot dished out.

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She revealed she was forced to watch a group of 11 musicians being viciously executed at a football stadium after they were accused of making a pornographic video.

Hee Yeon also told how Jong-Un enjoys £1,000 a time lunches while millions of his subjects survive on nothing more than grass or bark.

And she said the podgy brute plucks teenage girls from school as his sex slaves, despite being a married dad-of-three.

He also has hundreds of secret luxury boltholes deep within his rogue state to hide in, making it virtually impossible for foreign spy chiefs to track him.

And he forces even members of the elite to watch the executions he orders on a whim.

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Speaking of the horrific one she saw, graduate Hee Yeon said: “We were ordered to leave our classes by security men and made to travel to ­Pyongyang. There is a sports ground there, a kind of stadium.

“The musicians were brought out, tied up, hooded and apparently gagged, so they could not make a noise, not beg for mercy or scream.

“They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns.

“There were around 10,000 people ordered to watch that day and I was standing 200 feet from these victims.

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“A gun was fired, the noise was ­deafening, absolutely terrifying and the guns were fired one after the other. The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere.

“And then after that military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay.

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“The tracks were run over the remains and blood repeatedly, over and over again and made to grind the remains, to smash them into the ground until there was nothing left.

“I felt desperately ill from witnessing this. It was so horrible and I could not eat for three days as it made my stomach churn. What I saw that day made me sick in my stomach. Despite our privilege we were scared. I saw terrible things in Pyongyang.”

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Speaking of Jong-Un’s perverted appetite for sex with young girls, Hee Yeon told how she watched ­classmates being taken away to be his slaves.

She added: “Officials came to our schools and picked out teenage girls to work at one of his hundreds of homes around Pyongyang.

“They take the prettiest and ensure they have straight, good legs.

“They learn to serve him food like caviar and extremely rare delicacies. They are also taught how to massage him and they become sex slaves.

“Yes, they have to sleep with him and they cannot make a mistake or object because they could very easily simply disappear.”

Asked what happens if they get pregnant, she replies: “Maybe the same.”

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Hee Yeon, whose name we have changed to protect her, told how the evil leader later discards the girls but they are allowed to marry top officials.

Jong-Un, who is wed to Ri Sol-ju, is known to have ordered the executions of even close relatives, including his half-brother Kim Jong Nam who was killed at Kuala Lumpur this year by female agents with a nerve agent.

He has ­imprisoned 25 million of his starving people.

Hee Yeon told how everything about his macho image is a sham but he brainwashes people with claims of invincibility and threats to the US – as the world watches on nervously in his game of bluff with US president Mr Trump.

Jong-Un, 33, recently tested a nuclear blast 10 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

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But Hee Yeon told how when she met him he was nothing like the deity figure his propaganda machine had made him out to be. She added: “I was brought up told he was like a god. Then I met him I found him terrifying, nothing god-like about him.

“Everybody in Pyongyang openly supports Kim Jong-Un because they would be killed if they didn’t. Even his inner-circle. You can be killed for the slightest thing like disloyalty. Kim Jong-Un threatens war because he feels cornered. He is frightened his regime will end and he has nowhere to go. I had to escape but he knows he cannot do that so he feels he has to look strong.”

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Hee Yeon described one of Jong-Un’s boltholes as a “small palace” with swimming pools, beautiful gardens and fountains – a far cry from the shacks many of his subjects live in. She told how one of his favourite foods is Bird’s Nest Soup – a delicacy imported from China. Hee Yeon added: “I heard he also enjoyed Caviar and other delicacies.”

And she told how Jong-Un’s parades of female soldiers are another sham, acted out by girl students. At 19 she was made to take part in the 2010 October 10 ­celebrations after being ordered to stop studying for six months and put through gruelling drills 12 hours a day.

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Hee Yeon finally decided to flee after the death of her father Wui Yeon Lim, who died of alcohol problems. She knew she was leaving behind a life of privilege, but also one of extreme danger. She escaped with her mother and younger brother in a daring van trip where poverty-stricken guards were bribed by one of the country’s many people traffickers. They were driven to China in a 20-hour journey that cost them £5,000 then smuggled to Laos and finally to the South Korean capital of Seoul. From her ­hideaway there, Hee Yeon said: “That drive through North Korea from Pyongyang was terrifying.

“I thought I could be stopped at any time. The driver was handing out bribes all of the way to China.

“I have never felt so happy as I felt when I got out.”

'South need nukes back to halt Jong-un attacks'

Military experts in South Korea want the US to return tactical nuclear weapons as a defence against Kim Jong-un and his missile programme.

Retired Major General Yong Suk Lee, a member of the Korean Veterans Association, told us: “This is the most serious situation between North and South Korea since the 1950 war, and that is because of the nuclear threat from North Korea.

“Previously we did not recognise North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons, but now we, the United Nations and all allied nations believe Pyongyang has nuclear weapons.”

Around 100 battlefield nuclear missiles were removed from South Korea in 1991 under the George W Bush administration.

But Lee said: “North Korea wants to make the entire Korea Peninsular unified under communist rule.

“To achieve it he needs nuclear weapons to gain leverage, to make Washington negotiate. We, the KVA, want the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea.”