do you think there is a link to these articles?
maybe the general had some financial interest in a restaurant on the border.
the news coming out of NK can be sketchy w/details & you never get the full story.
It is true that confirmation is not easy when it comes to things happening inside N. Korea. If there was a public execution watched by many people, we could have confirmation from multiple sources. It will take time, though. However, it was indeed reported in major news media:
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2016/07/29/0301000000AEN20160729002500315.html
Pyongyang publicly executed 6 officials responsible for April defection: sources
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) — North Korea publicly executed six officials in charge of supervision of its workers overseas in May following the defection of 13 workers at a North Korean-run restaurant in China a month earlier, a local Pyongyang watcher said Friday.
“North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered six officials, including intelligence officials, to be executed publicly on May 5 due to their lack of control over overseas (North Korean) workers,” Choi Seong-yong, chairman of the Abductees’ Family Union, claimed, citing people familiar with the matter.
Eighty public officials and 100 people who have their family members working overseas were forced to watch the execution, he said.
In early April, a group of 12 women and one man fled from a North Korea-run restaurant in China’s eastern port city of Ningbo and defected to South Korea. In the following month, three female workers at a North Korean restaurant in the midwest city of Shanxi reportedly defected to the South.
“North Korea locked the families of the defectors up and forced them to take ideological education at a training facility in Myohyang Mountain, in the northern part of the communist country,” Choi said.
The North Korean authorities have argued the workers didn’t defect to the South but were kidnapped by the South Korean government.
북한 현역 장군, 김정은 비자금 450억 가지고 탈북
(translation of the title: N. Korean general in active duty, defected with 45 billion Won($40 million) for Kim Jong-un's slush fund)
북한군 인민무력부 소속 현역 소장(한국군의 준장급)이 가족 2명을 데리고 7월 중순 탈북할 때 김정은에게 상납할 거금을 가지고 탈북한 것으로 알려졌다.
29일 KBS 보도에 따르면, 이 인물은 동남아와 중국 남부 지역의 북한 식당과 건설 현장에서 벌어들인 외화를 김정은의 비자금을 관리하는 노동당 39호실로 송금하는 업무를 해온 것으로 전해졌다.
그는 김정은에게 상납해야 할 4000만 달러(한화 약 450억 원 가량)를 갖고 탈북해 중국 내에서 제3국행을 원하고 있는 것으로 알려졌다.