| Kim Yong-Jin, pictured second from the left, was executed by firing squad in July. (AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP) |
North Korea has executed its vice premier of education for having a “bad attitude,” Seoul officials said.
Kim Yong-jin died by firing squad in July after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s authoritarian administration condemned the 63-year-old for “anti-revolutionary” behavior in June, according to the Yonhap News Agency.
Kim is among more than a hundred high-ranking government and military officials who have likely been killed while serving the brutish Supreme Leader.
The fascist government recently banished two more civil servants to work camps, South Korean officials learned.
The two men, United Front Department head Kim Yong-chol, 71, and an unidentified official who handled the country’s infamous propaganda, will reportedly undergo “revolutionary measures,” said South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee.
Kim Yong-chol was in charge of anti-Seoul spy operations and while with the North’s army intelligence agency, he allegedly orchestrated two attacks that killed 50 people in South Korea in 2010.
Jeong learned of Yong-jin’s execution “through various channels” but would decline to elaborate further.
Seoul’s spy agency reported that a North Korean military chief had been executed in May, but later, the government learned he was alive, well and had been promoted.
The North’s state media reported Yong-jin attended a taekwondo federation celebration on June 15, but his whereabouts after the festivity were not known.
The former education minister took over as vice premier in 2012, a year after Kim Jong-un rose to power.