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North Korea executed five senior security officials after they reportedly 'enraged' leader Kim Jong Un by allegedly making false reports.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has fired his top military general and replaced him with his former defence minister, an official who was once believed to have been executed.. The country’s ...
In October 2001, the North Korean government told the UN Human Rights Committee that "only 13" executions had occurred since 1998 and that no public execution had occurred since 1992. [1] On December 13, 2013, North Korean state media announced the execution of Jang Sung-taek, the uncle by marriage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. [6]
A top official stated that while executions take place for crimes of treason or subversion, Hyon was not among the executed. According to analysts interviewed by BBC News , while reassigning officials was commonplace in North Korea, the execution of a figure as close to Kim Jong Un as Hyon was surprising, and could give cause to concern for the ...
Kim’s government also ordered diplomats overseas to refrain from any acts that could provoke the United States because it is worried about President-elect Joe Biden’s expected new approach ...
In May 2019 the South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo claimed that, in the aftermath of the failed Hanoi summit, Kim Hyok-chol and another four officials had been executed at Mirim Airport, Sadong-guyok, Pyongyang in March 2019. [4] It was also indicated that some other participants, among them Kim Yong-chol, were sent to reeducation camps.
By RYAN GORMAN North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un reportedly had 10 senior government officials executed –- for watching South Korean soap operas. The dictator's return to the public eye was met ...
Kim Yong-jin (Korean: 김용진; 23 February 1953 – July 2016) was a senior North Korean official. Kim served as North Korea's education minister, and in 2012 was made a vice-premier . Execution