North Korea executed defence minister with anti-aircraft gun

[Jman888]

 

 

N Korea executes vice premier for 'disrespect': Seoul

AFP

Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016

 

This recent picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 29, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un dellivering his speech during the 9th Congress of the Kim Il-Sung Socialist Youth League which held in Pyongyang on August 27 and 28, 2016.

 

SEOUL - North Korea has executed a vice premier for showing disrespect during a meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong-Un, and banished two other officials for re-education, South Korea said Wednesday.

 

Since taking power after his father's death in late 2011, Kim is believed to have executed or demoted a number of senior figures in what analysts say is an attempt to tighten his grip on power.

 

"Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed," Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said at a regular briefing.

 

Kim 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.

 

"Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum" during a session of North Korea's parliament, and then underwent a interrogation that revealed his other crimes, the official told reporters.

 

The mass-selling JoongAng Ilbo first reported on Tuesday that top figures had been punished, but identified the education official by a different name.

 

"He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting presided over by Kim. He was arrested on site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry," it quoted a source as saying.

 

The unification ministry said two other senior figures were forced to undergo re-education sessions.

 

One of them was Kim Yong-Chol, a top official in charge of inter-Korean affairs and espionage activities against the South.

 

The 71-year-old Kim is a career military intelligence official who is believed to be the mastermind behind the North's frequent cyberattacks against Seoul.

 

Kim is also blamed by the South for the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010 near the disputed sea border with the North in the Yellow Sea.

 

Kim was banished to an agricultural farm in July for a month for his "arrogance" and "abuse of power," the ministry official said.

 

Kim Yong-Chol, who was subsequently reinstated this month, is likely to be tempted to prove his loyalty by committing provocative acts against the South, the official said.

 

"Therefore, we are keeping a close tab on the North", he said.

 

South Korea's Yonhap news agency put the number of party officials executed during Kim Jong-Un's rule at over 100.

 

The most notorious case was that of Kim's uncle and onetime No. 2 Jang Song-Thaek, who was executed for charges including treason and corruption in December 2013.

 

In April 2015, it was reported that Kim had his defence minister Hyon Yong-Chol summarily executed with an anti-aircraft gun.

 

Reports of the latest execution coincide with a series of high-profile defections from the North.

 

North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britain has defected to the South with his family, the unification ministry said earlier this month.

 

Thae Yong-Ho was driven by "disgust for the North Korean regime" and concerns for his family's future, it said.

 

Twelve waitresses and their manager who had been working at a North Korea-themed restaurant in China also made headlines when they arrived in the South in April as the largest group defection for years.

 

About 10 North Korean diplomats made it to the South in the first half of this year alone, Yonhap said, quoting informed sources.

 

 

 

 

[Celicar]

The CNA ticker-tape says something like NK EXECUTES VICE PREMIER FOR EDUCATION, I think it means to educate the NKreans, a vice premier was executed.

[Jman888]

The CNA ticker-tape says something like NK EXECUTES VICE PREMIER FOR EDUCATION, I think it means to educate the NKreans, a vice premier was executed.

There was also reported that he executed one education minister and another duno what minister. so maybe he just executed whoever fall asleep in the meeting

[Kb27]

Kim sure learn fast how to be a tyrant and hang onto power.

Edited August 31, 2016 by Kb27