North Korea has executed one of its highest ranking ministers and punished two others, a South Korean government official said Wednesday.
Jeong Joon-hee, Seoul’s unification ministry spokesman, said the North Korean government executed Kim Yong-jin, the 63-year-old education minister, last month by firing squad after labeling him an “anti-party and anti-revolutionary” element. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reports the minister was brought under investigation in June for his sitting posture at a parliamentary meeting. Severe punishment, including death, for such perceived crimes are not uncommon in North Korea.
The two North Korean officials undergoing punishment for crimes related to abuse of power and mishandling of work are 71-year-old Kin Yong-chol, the head of the United Front Department, and 62-year-old Choe Hwi, a vice department director of the ruling party’s central committee. Seoul’s Unification Ministry said both men were sent to undergo re-education in rural areas of the country.
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