Two senior regime
officers reported to have been killed for posing a threat to leader Kim Jong-un.
According to The conservative daily, the JoongAng Ilbo reported that
Hwang Min, a former agriculture minister, and Ri Yong-jin, a senior official at
the education ministry, were executed by anti-aircraft gun at a military
academy in Pyongyang earlier this month.
Ri Yong
Jin, a senior official at the
education ministry, was sentenced to death after dozing off in a meeting led by
Kim. Ri was reportedly taken into custody and interrogated, during which time his alleged “disloyalty” was
discovered.
Hwang was
reportedly killed for making policy proposals that were seen as a direct threat
to Kim’s leadership