On Friday, the 15-member UN Security Council announced its condemnation in a unanimous statement drafted by the USA and supported by China, expressing “serious concern” about North Korea’s four ballistic missile launches in July and August.
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Meanwhile, Jeong Joon, Spokesman of the Unification Ministry, said in Pyongyang that government had confirmed the execution of the education official, Kim Yong-Jin.
The North launched a nuclear test in January, resulting in a substantial strengthening of United Nations sanctions, but a defiant Pyongyang doubled down with a series of ballistic missile tests also banned by United Nations resolutions.
One of the men was accused of simply falling asleep during a meeting.
Furthermore, Mr. Kim has the blame for sinking a South Korean warship in 2010, near the disputed border with North Korea, in the Yellow Sea. “He was arrested on site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry”, it quoted a source as saying. “He was executed after other charges, such as corruption, were found during the probe”. Former Agriculture Minister Hwang Min was purged over a proposed project seen as a direct challenge to Kim’s leadership, it said.
Kim Heung-kwang claimed that Pyongyang’s ultimate motivation for the submarine modification was in being able to load four of its new submarine-launched missiles into the new vessel.
Recent heavy rainfall in North Korea’s northern regions has caused considerable human losses and property damage, a Seoul-based media report said Thursday, citing sources in North Korea.
Such executions are said to be carried out on firing ranges like the one pictured below.
Vice Premier for Education Kim Yong Jin was sent to the firing squad in July, apparently after slouching at a public event. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Kim’s late father Kim Jong Il executed about 10 people in his first years in power – far fewer than his son.
Kim Jong-Un, believed to be his early 30s, is revered at the center of an intense cult of personality at home, with state TV showing aging senior officials kowtowing and kneeling down before him.
On top of this unfortunate situation for North Korea citizens, the reign of terror of party officials who have been executed under Kim Jong-Un’s rule has been reported to be at more than 100 officials.
This week’s report concerns the alleged execution of a vice premier and the banishment of two other senior officials. “And Choe Hwi, a vice director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers’ Party, is now undergoing such re-education”.
Kim Yong-chol, 71, head of the United Front Department, was sent to a farm for “re-education” – ironically for his “heavy-handed” approach.
In May, however, he reportedly reappeared on a list of attendees of a Workers’ Party of Korea congress.
Another South Korean official said the education official’s poor posture was spotted at a meeting on June 29, when Kim Jong-un was named chairman of a new national defence department.
“There are no easy teams in the final round”, warned Korea’s coach Uli Steilike, according to Yonhap news agency.”China have recently pulled up their Federation Internationale de Football Association rankings and they are a competitive team”.
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JoongAng Daily’s report has yet to be independently verified, and North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency has remained silent on the subject.
