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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenior official executed after falling asleep during meeting presided by Kim Jong-Un
Seoul (AFP) - North Korea has executed a vice premier for showing disrespect during a meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea said Wednesday, after reports that he fell asleep.
The regime also banished two other senior officials, Seoul said, the latest in a slew of punishments Kim is believed to have ordered in what analysts say is an attempt to tighten his grip on power.
"Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed," Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said at a regular briefing.
Kim was killed by a firing squad in July as "an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator," added an official at the ministry, who declined to be named.
"Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum" during a session of North Korea's parliament, and then underwent an interrogation that revealed other "crimes", the official told reporters.
The mass-selling JoongAng Ilbo reported on Tuesday that top regime figures had been punished, but identified the education official by a different name.
"He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting presided over by Kim," it quoted a source as saying.
"He was arrested on site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry".
The regime also banished two other senior officials, Seoul said, the latest in a slew of punishments Kim is believed to have ordered in what analysts say is an attempt to tighten his grip on power.
"Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed," Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said at a regular briefing.
Kim was killed by a firing squad in July as "an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator," added an official at the ministry, who declined to be named.
"Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum" during a session of North Korea's parliament, and then underwent an interrogation that revealed other "crimes", the official told reporters.
The mass-selling JoongAng Ilbo reported on Tuesday that top regime figures had been punished, but identified the education official by a different name.
"He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting presided over by Kim," it quoted a source as saying.
"He was arrested on site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry".
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-koreas-top-education-official-executed-seoul-022737788.html
Kim is said to be very angry after another official recently defected in London.
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Senior official executed after falling asleep during meeting presided by Kim Jong-Un (Original Post)
davidn3600
Sep 2016
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dhill926
(16,339 posts)1. that'll teach him...
orwell
(7,773 posts)2. I guees this means...
Kaepernick won't ever be playing football in North Korea...
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)3. If you snooze, you lose.