Madman Kim Jong Un’s reign of terror continues. Reports say the North Korean dictator brutally executed a vice premier — possibly with an anti-aircraft gun — after the top official briefly dozed off in during a cabinet meeting with Kim.
Two other top officials were banished to rural areas for so-called “re-education”, South Korean officials said Wednesday.
The brutal use of a massive anti-aircraft gun is a savage method even for Kim, but these kinds of executions of top North Korean officials is nothing new.
Satellite images released by the Committee for Human Rights of North Korea from October 2014, showed targets being killed in the same manner, complete with a viewing area for Kim’s pleasure.
If confirmed, the execution of the vice premier would be the latest in a series of killings, purges and dismissals carried out since Kim took power in late 2011.
North Korea is a closed, authoritarian country with a state-controlled press that often makes it difficult for outsiders, and even North Korean citizens, to know what’s happening in the government.
Rival South Korea, which runs several intelligence organizations mainly tasked with spying on North Korea, has a mixed record on reporting developments across the border. In May, a former North Korean military chief, who Seoul said had been executed, was found to be alive and holding several new senior-level posts.
Jeong Joon Hee, a spokesman for Seoul’s Unification Ministry, told reporters Wednesday that Kim Yong Jin, a vice premier on education affairs in North Korea’s cabinet, had been executed. Jeong gave no further details, including why and when his ministry believes he was executed and how it obtained the information.
But a South Korean official, speaking on condition of anonymity citing office rules, said Kim was executed by firing squad in July for unspecified anti-revolutionary and factional acts. The official said Kim first faced an investigation because of the way he was seated during a June meeting attended by Kim Jong Un.
Little is known about Kim Yong Jin, who was last mentioned by North Korea’s state news agency on June 15, when it reported he attended an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s taekwondo federation.
Kim Jong Un, believed to be his early 30s, is revered at the center of an intense cult of personality, with state TV occasionally showing aging senior officials kowtowing and kneeling down before him. Last year, South Korea’s spy agency said Kim had his defense chief executed with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about him and sleeping during a meeting he had presided over.
Jeong said Kim Yong Chol, a top ruling Workers’ Party official in charge of anti-Seoul spy operations, had also been ordered to undertake “revolutionary re-education,” in a reference to the banishment at a rural collective farm or a coal mine. Jeong said another senior party official dealing with propaganda affairs, Choe Hwi, was still on a similar “revolutionary re-education” program.
Seoul officials believe Kim Yong Chol, director of the party’s United Front Department, orchestrated two attacks that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010, when he headed the North Korean army’s intelligence agency. Kim disappeared from the public eye for about 50 days before the North’s state media on Sunday mentioned his name in a list of officials who attended ceremonies marking the Youth Day.
Kim Yong Chol was banished at a rural farm for about one month between mid-July and mid-August because of alleged high-handed attitudes and attempts to expand his United Front Department’s authority too much, according to the South Korean official who spoke about Kim Yong Jin’s execution. The official said Kim Yong Chol was recently reinstated.
The rival Koreas have shared the world’s most heavily fortified border since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, and they bar ordinary citizens from exchanging phone calls, letters and emails without special permission.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
MacArthur was correct 65 years ago.
Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely. Let us all hope and pray that this maniac will meet a bloody end too. Dictators everywhere are a crime against humanity.
It would only take “ONE BULLET” to stop this PIECE OF CRAP, DICTATOR.
Seems that no one there has the GUTS to SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Right on T. Price! This fat little piggy boi needs to be taken out, whether by a highly trained sniper, a anti-aircraft gun or a few high powered missiles directly on the scumbags Presidential Palace while we KNOW he is in there and strong enough to take out everything within 100 miles of the slop hole Palace!
Put a price on his head. I might volunteer.
Paranoid little fat bastard should tried and put in front of a firing squad to rid the world of another insane despot.
Its unnerving to see what can happen to a country when a freak is put in power, and nobody does anything to stop it. The press, the government, the people…………….nobody. Sound familiar? It could happen to us.
“COULD”? We’ve been under such a regime for the last 7+ years and IF POS Shitlery gets in she’ll make the last 7 years look like the good old days!!!
Jc your 100% right but that BITCH will not win in fact she will get blown out of the water
You have it backwards buddy, if Mr. small hands, crazy like a run over chicken should ever become president God forbid, I don’t think we will have a USA anymore!!!!
Nancy? It does look quite familiar .Lambd led to cxxxx
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
He is an insane cruel bastard. All the ppl are scared of him. Saw two different documentaries about him. The ppl bow and praise him. They know nothing. Have been brainwashed and will report anybody that says or does things not allowed. If he was assassinated, the ppl would be lost. Would need reality treatment. Sad country. A young man did escape and told the horrors there. If one person does wrong, the whole family is punished. Sent to farms to work and are starved.
He is EVIL.
We must stop letting evil people off the hook by saying that they are ill (mentally).
He’s sane enough not to sneak into, say Japan, and start murdering people.
Kim Jung Un is the latest in a string of insane North Korean leaders. One well placed bullet would improve the lot for North Koreans. This brutal tyrant will hopefully be overthrown in a coup one day. Seeing him marched to his execution before a firing squad will be a start toward dealing with the brutality of the Kim family dynasty.
HIGH EXPLOSIVES SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS
The North Koreans apparently don’t know anything about the French Revolution. After Robespierre was guillotined, the Reign of Terror came to an abrupt end. The North Korean military needs to take some unified action to protect themselves. Of course, Robespierre was viewed as a mere leader, not as a god. Sick, sick, sick.
This maniac is in the same league with Iran’s leader that our President is making deals with, that in itself is dangerous.
That little dink should be spank on his ass and sent to bed with no supper????????????????????????
I wonder if obummer is taking all of this in. I wouldn’t put it past that BASTARD to declare Martial Law and try to do some of the exact CRAP that little PIG in North Korea is doing.
I don’t feel one bit sorry for any of Crazy Kim’s government lackeys who are killed by him. To get into that position in Crazy Kim’s government they had to completely kiss his behind, and be involved in all of his totalitarian actions. They’re all probably guilty of killing many of their countrymen or sending them to prison. So now the behind that they’re kissing is farting very nastily on them? You had it coming, government lackies!! Go ahead, Crazy Kim, kill more, more, more. Force them to do what they must do, which is to kill you. The sooner the better.
its getting to sound like a Caligula story!
So you admit to watching that movie? Really good comparison.
neither do we??? right T. Price.
Crazy world where an inhuman like him can get into power! Here in America–we’d better prevent poll cheating like that done in 2012 by Obama, or we’ll be finished. 120% in Philly voted for Obama?! Hogwash! We had family and friends living in Philly then who voted for Romney. And you don’t get “120%” by not cheating! See the movies “Hillary’s America” and “Clinton Cash,” and if you doubt, RESEARCH IT YOURSELF! A lot of young Americans don’t know true history because of our inept brainwashing un-education system. WAKE UP AND VOTE TRUMP! By the way, just about every point the media complained about that Trump? Almost all have later been proven right on Trump’s side, including his claim that Muslims were swarming on buildings celebrating when the twin towers fell. HE WAS CRITICIZED FOR SAYING THAT, BUT I REMEMBER THE NEWS REPORT SHOWING IT A DAY R SO AFTER 9-11. Just because a left wing media wants to erase it from the nation’s memory doesn’t mean it didn’t happen!
To continue my point, I’m sick of left-wing media that bows to Obama and Hillary! That media makes fun of trump when he says things such as there were muslims celebrating on the tops of buildings in new jersey on 911! I remember the videos and news reports broadcast a few days after 911, and Trump was right! But the left –wing media wants to erase these things from our nation’s memory. Don’t let it happen! Vote in Trump, or we will be left with brainwashing liar Hillary.
The job to eliminate this guy is as easy as lighting a cigarette. Secretly supply the drone to South Korea. The United States will be the easy suspect on this and rightfully. But so what? It may take a spark to start a fire but the United States has still the upperhand in any global turmoil. Only the problem is a timid President Obama. Vote for Donald Trump. He will do it. Or Israel will gladly do it if given the green light. This elimination job should be promulgated as a service to the human race serving as a deterrent to future rulers of his ilk. Let’s not wait for the gods to do it for us. They might have worse problem in their own planet.
The FBI and Secret Service took all the private films taken at the site when JFK was shot, too. My memory serves me well of a film showing about six or eight police storming the grassy hill immediately after the shooting. I have not seen that film since that day. History keeps getting re-written. People keep dying. Shades of “1984.”