Posted on 08/12/2015 2:58:56 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
NK leader had vice premier executed with gun: sources
2015/08/12 18:41
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of the country's vice premier by shooting earlier this year, sources said Tuesday, in another sign of the leader's reign of terror.
Vice Premier Choe Yong-gon was executed in May as he had expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy, according to the sources.
South Korea's state spy agency earlier said that the North Korean leader has tightened grip on his power base in a brutal way, including the execution of about 70 senior officials.
In late 2013, Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of Jang Song-thaek, the husband of Kim's aunt and once the country's second most powerful figure, on charges of treason. The North's former defense chief Hyun Yong-chol is believed to have been executed in April for his disloyalty toward Kim.
Perhaps the have stopped using the server in Japan and migrated to http://www.kcna.kp/kcna.user.home.retrieveHomeInfoList.kcmsf?lang=eng
Their sites have been down. One of them had been hacked. Pictures of starving NK children were plastered on its home page.
i.e they are showing the truth now.
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