This fact corrects the announcement made by South Korea’s press where it was said that two North Korean officials were sentenced to death and killed by an anti-aircraft gun.
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“Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed”, said Jeong Joon-hee, spokesman for South Korea’s unification ministry.
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.
Kim Jong Un executed a senior official by firing squad because he was slouching during a meeting, it has been claimed.
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. “He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting that Kim presided over”, the newspaper quoted the source as saying. The 63-year-old had been investigated by the regime’s state security department after being caught dozing off during the Supreme People’s Assembly in June. He was also “intensely questioned” and charged with corruption before being executed.
Two other senior officials were also punished in the past few months, the Unification Ministry said, although they escaped execution.
The most influential official to have been executed was Jang Song-thaek, Kim’s uncle and second-in-command. Kim, 71, was a career military intelligence official who was believed to be the leader behind North Korea’s cyberattacks on Seoul. Jeong declined to give any more details on the execution.
In February, Seoul said the North’s military chief of staff had been executed, but he later resurfaced at a party rally in May.
North Korea already maintains the representation of an authoritarian country; meaning that it is closed-off. Reports of the latest execution coincide with a series of high-profile defections from the North.
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The latest alleged execution comes after North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London reportedly defected and arrived in South Korea with his family.
