Kim Yong-jin, North Korea’s vice premier for education and Hwang Min, a former bureaucrat in the agriculture ministry, were allegedly gunned down in July under dictator Kim’s tyrannical regime.
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The source said Hwang is understood to have been executed because he pushed for policy proposals that were seen as a direct challenge to Kim’s leadership, and Ri angered Kim after he fell asleep during a meeting.
On 29 December 2011, after the period of national mourning decreed after his father’s death, Kim Jong-Un was officially proclaimed “supreme leader of the party, state and army”.
Kim Jong-un uses an anti-aircraft gun to execute one high-ranking official for sleeping in a meeting and another for coming up with his own idea.
Kim Jong Un meets with battalion commanders in Pyongyang, North Korea on November 3, 2014. About 10 North Korean diplomats made it to the South in the first half of this year alone, Yonhap said, quoting informed sources. The state security ministry questioned Mr. Kim, rather intensely, which was then followed by execution.
No other details were provided, including when the executed was held or how Seoul obtained the information.
The regime also banished two other senior officials, Seoul said, the latest in a slew of punishments Kim is believed to have ordered in what analysts say is an attempt to tighten his grip on power.
Reports of the latest execution coincide with a series of high-profile defections from the North.
Two other senior officials were also punished for “lapses”.
Kim Jong-un, believed to be his early 30s, is revered at the centre of an intense cult of personality, with state TV occasionally showing ageing senior officials kowtowing and kneeling down before him.
Jeong said another senior party official dealing with propaganda affairs, Choe Hwi, was still on a similar “revolutionary re-education” program.
According to the reports that said by the officials to media, “Kim Yong-Jin was criticized for his very bad sitting posture on the platform during an assembly of parliament of North Korea and then went through a questioning session that exposed others”.
Most notably, Kim’s uncle Jang Song Thaek was executed in 2012 for factionalism and crimes considered damaging to the economy.
It is hard to independently verify news about top officials in the North or the inner circle around the leader.
North Korea already maintains the representation of an authoritarian country; meaning that it is closed-off. In May 2015, North Korea’s defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, was assassinated by airstrike after being accused of treason.
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Rival South Korea, which runs several intelligence organisations mainly tasked with spying on North Korea, has a mixed record on reporting developments across the border.
