South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported that Ri Yong-Jin was a senior official at the education department and Hwang Min was the country’s agricultural minister, citing a source with knowledge of North Korea.
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North Korea has executed a top education official and banished two other officials to rural areas for re-education, South Korean officials said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, The Guardian noted that there has been a rise in executions in North Korea since Kim Jong-Un came to power in 2011.
Vice Premier Kim Yong Jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event, a South Korean government official later told Reuters.
According to a new report out Tuesday, Kim Jong-un had two North Korean officials publicly executed earlier this month.
Kim Yong-chol was in charge of anti-Seoul spy operations and while with the North’s army intelligence agency, he allegedly orchestrated two attacks that killed 50 people in South Korea in 2010.
Mr. Kim had fallen asleep during the parliament meeting and was arrested on the spot.
He was accused of abuse of power, including “an overbearing manner and forceful push to strengthening authority into (the) Party’s United Front Department”, the South Korean official said.
Kim, like his deceased father Kim Jong-Il, has executed officials who challenge his reign without compunction.
However, nothing such has been reported by the state’s official KCNA news agency.
Kim Jong-un has executed a senior North Korean official by firing squad because he did not sit properly during a meeting. Not only is it hard for worldwide civilians to understand what happens inside of the borders of North Korea but due to state-controlled media; even the citizens are never sure on what the government is doing.
Kim Yong Jin was killed by a firing squad in July as “an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator”, added an official at the ministry, who declined to be named. The state security ministry questioned Mr. Kim, rather intensely, which was then followed by execution.
The South’s spy agency said a former Defence Minister, Hyun Chol, is also believed to have been executed previous year for treason.
AA guns are heavy-duty high-caliber machine guns that can “pulverise” a human body according to to Greg Scarlatoiu and Joseph Bermudez Jr from the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), quoted in the Washington Post.
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Most notably, Kim’s uncle Jang Song Thaek was executed in 2012 for factionalism and crimes considered damaging to the economy.
