Kim Jong-un uses an anti-aircraft gun to execute one high-ranking official for sleeping in a meeting and another for coming up with his own idea.
Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of
two high-ranking officials by anti-aircraft gun over fears that the dictator is
preparing another purge against his people.
Ri Yong Jin, a senior official at
the education ministry, was sentenced to death after he fell asleep in a
meeting being addressed by Kim.
After accidentally dozing off, Ri
was taken into custody and interrogated where security agents found evidence of
his disloyalty and disrespect towards Kim.
According to South Korean newspaper
Joongang Ilbo, Hwang Min, a former agriculture minister was also sentenced to
death.
Hwang's crime, according to the
South Korean media, was to have developed a number of ideas to improve
agricultural production.
These ideas were seen by the regime
as an attempt to undermine Kim.
Both men were executed by an
anti-aircraft gun at a military academy in Pyongyang.
The North Korean regime is
especially paranoid in recent weeks after a senior official at the London
embassy defected to South Korea along with his wife and children.
North Korea rarely announces purges
or executions, although state media confirmed execution of Kim's uncle and the
man widely considered the second most powerful man in the country, Jang Song
Thaek, in 2012 for factionalism and crimes damaging to the economy.
A former defence minister, Hyun Yong
Chol, is also believed to have been executed last year for treason, according
to the South's spy agency.
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