South Korea has confirmed the North’s Vice Premier has been executed and two other senior officials have been sent for so-called “re-education”.
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In another Horrific Incident, North Korean dictator/king Kim Jong-Un has executed a senior North Korean official by firing squad because he did not sit properly during a meeting.
There have been many reports recently surrounding executions of North Korean officials.
It remains hard to independently verify reports of executions and purges in the secretive North. Some previous reports of executions and purges in the reclusive state have proven inaccurate. “Kim Yong-chol got in trouble for abusing his authority and was punished by being sent to the countryside for reeducation between mid-July and mid-August”.
If Mr Kim’s execution is confirmed, it would be just the latest in a series of purges and executions of top officials that Kim Jong-un has enacted since he came to power in 2011.
Hwang Min, a agriculture ministry official, was executed along with Yong-jin for “pushing policy proposals” that didn’t sit well with the Great Crybaby.
Kim Yong-jin was promoted to vice premier in 2012 after serving as education minister, according to a South Korean government database on key officials of the North. Another top official dealing with propaganda affairs, Choe Hwi, was also reportedly put on “revolutionary reeducation” program.
A source told the South Korean newspaper that the two men were killed at a military academy in Pyongyang with anti-aircraft guns.
The paper said that Ri was killed after he fell asleep during a meeting presided over by Kim. He was condemned for committing “anti-party, anti-revolutionary” acts.
But if the rumor holds truth, it would be the first time Kim has ordered executions outside his party or the military, the Chicago Tribune noted.
In February, the chief of the general staff, General Ri Yong-gil, was reportedly executed on charges of corruption, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Deputy Premier Kim Yong Jin would be the highest-ranking official executed since 2013, when Kim Jong Un dispatched with the country’s second-ranking official, his uncle Jang Song Thaek.
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The North Korean regime is especially paranoid in recent weeks after a senior official at the London embassy defected to South Korea along with his wife and children. Last year, Seoul’s spy agency said that a former North Korean defense minister, Hyon Yong Chol, was executed for treason.
