The South Korean Spy Agency recently reported that North Korea’s Defense Minister, Hyon Yong-chol, has been executed for showing disloyalty to leader Kim Jong-un. Mr Hyon was killed on the 30th of April, 2015 by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience of hundreds, the Yonhap news agency reported.
What exactly is disloyalty, you ask? It is reported that Mr. Hyon had fallen asleep during an event attended by Kim Jong-un, and had not carried out instructions.
A senior military officer was also killed on similar grounds, said South Korea.
The news comes weeks after the reported execution of 15 senior officials. Among them were two vice-ministers who had challenged Mr. Kim over his policies and members of an orchestra, the South’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS) said. [1]
The South Korean intelligence agency didn’t tell lawmakers how it got its information, only that it was from a variety of channels and that it believed it to be true, the South Korean lawmakers said. The spy agency refused to confirm the report when contacted by The Associated Press.
South Korea’s spy agency has a spotty record of tracking developments in North Korea. Information about the secretive, authoritarian state is often impossible to confirm. The spy service faced widespread criticism when it failed to predict the North’s artillery strikes on a South Korean island in 2010 because it ignored intercepted North Korean communications that indicated a possible attack. The agency saved face in 2013 when it said that Kim Jong-un had purged his powerful uncle, Jang Song Thaek, days before Pyongyang announced the former No. 2’s execution because of alleged treason. [2]
Meanwhile, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency has not confirmed the purge, which was revealed by an official from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) to a closed meeting of lawmakers. But we all know how trustworthy and reliable North Korea’s media is!
Various analysts believe that this could be a cause for concern about the nation’s stability, because unlike reshuffling of officials which were common in North Korea, the execution of a figure as close to Mr. Kim as Mr. Hyon was very surprising. “Hyon was seen as one of the three closest military officials to Kim Jong-un,” said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies. “An inexperienced leader like Kim can often display a tendency for overtly dramatic and brash moves … and for me the situation looks quite worrisome,” he added. “It also suggests Kim is politically frustrated.”
There are others who think that this display is another attempt to prove that Kim is really the “supreme leader” in his country. Andrei Lankov, a North Korea specialist at Kookmin University in Seoul, said that the reported purges in Pyongyang did not necessarily mean that Kim’s grip of power was weakening. “The common assumption is that it’s bad for stability, but I’m not so sure,” Lankov said. “The young boy is not necessarily popular with the military, so he wants to show that he’s in control and he’s the boss.”
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[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32716749?OCID=fbasia&ocid=socialflow_facebook
Very sick and dangerous man.
Hitler 2
With camps as Auschwitz and Treblinka.
Or maybe a dangerous culture. Maybe he is afraid he will be assassinated so kills off anyone he thinks is a threat to him, a vicious circle where the more he kills the more he worries he will be killed then the more he executes etc etc etc, it’s like survival mode and as he gets the reputation for being ruthless he may fear the outside world more and so on. Dare I say it, maybe he needs real gestures of goodwill from America for example.
Where this is coming from is, everyone is human, everyone feels love, (I even wonder whether there is such a thing as a psychopath or whether that’s just another word which means nothing but stigmatizing certain behaviour), looking at Hitler and so on as human, a normal human being shaped by their environment to behave a certain way, maybe is the way to look at it to find a real solution.
*everyone has felt love at some point, everyone knows what it’s like to feel love and everyone has the capability to be kind etc.
“Goodwill from America” HAHAHA
May I just say that Arabian countries and North Korea are some of the worst countries to stay in? Rampant autocracy is not good, at all, unless the ruler is sane. And, this is not the case in these countries. Why does the UN do nothing about human rights in these countries?
bc the UN just wants full control of the world they dont give a poo about you