The newspaper said that the education ministry official was caught nodding off during a meeting with the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, adding that North Korean authorities launched an investigation after the incident into charges of disrespecting the leader.
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Local news agency Yonhap cited the official as saying that Kim Yong-jin, 63, was shot by firing squad last month after being accused of “showing a bad attitude” during a parliamentary meeting in late June.
The ministry said two other senior officials had to undergo re-education sessions.
Kim Yong-chol, who took the helm of the UFD after predecessor Kim Yang-gon was killed in a vehicle accident in December, was temporarily purged by being sent to a farm in the countryside to undergo ideological reeducation for a high-handed attitude at his job, the official said.
North Korea’s state security department labeled Kim Yong Jin “anti-party and a counter-revolutionary member” after he displayed a “bad attitude” during the country’s Supreme People’s Assembly in June, CNN reported.
Vice Premier Kim Yon-jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event, a South Korean Government official later told Reuters.
Earlier this month, Seoul said the second-in-command of North Korea’s embassy in the United Kingdom had defected to the South.
Since taking power in late 2011, he has purged or rotated out about 100 senior officials, according to the South Korean government.
The mass-selling JoongAng Ilbo reported on Tuesday, August 30, that top regime figures had been punished, but identified the education official by a different name.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (2nd R) inspecting a fish food factory in July of this year. And we have figured out that Choi Hwi, director of the first division of the Workers’ Party Propaganda and Agitation Department, has also been ordered to be “revolutionised'”.
North Korea has executed its vice-premier for education as well as rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said yesterday.
The leadership of Kim Jong-Un is leading to a reign of terror as more executions and punishments are incurring from his wrath.
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In April a year ago, Hyon Yong-chol, a former Defence Chief, was executed after falling asleep during a military rally attended by Kim. Kim Jong-un had executed Jang Song-thaek (his own uncle).
