N. Korea dictator executes minister for falling asleep
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his defence chief executed with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about the young ruler, talking back to him and sleeping during a meeting presided over by Kim, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday, citing what it called credible information.
National Intelligence Service officials told a closed-door parliamentary committee meeting that People’s Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong Chol was killed in front of hundreds of spectators at a shooting range at Pyongyang’s Kang Kon Military Academy in late April, according to lawmaker Shin Kyoung-min, who attended the briefing.
Kim’s purges over recent years are seen as efforts to bolster his grip on power. The most notable was in 2013, when Kim executed his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, once the nation’s second-most powerful man, for alleged treason. CNN on Tuesday quoted a North Korean defector saying Kim ordered his aunt to be poisoned for complaining angrily for months about her husband’s killing.
My only concern is since this info is coming from SK media, couldn't they be possibly be using this as propoganda to make NK look bad? Idk. All I know is that they want to reunify oneday.
My only concern is since this info is coming from SK media, couldn't they be possibly be using this as propoganda to make NK look bad? Idk. All I know is that they want to reunify oneday.
Yeah. They actually recanted this and said he was purged, not executed.
You really can't trust everything U.S. and SK media say.
My only concern is since this info is coming from SK media, couldn't they be possibly be using this as propoganda to make NK look bad? Idk. All I know is that they want to reunify oneday.
