SEOUL: North Korea has executed a vice premier for showing disrespect during a meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea said Wednesday, after reports that he fell asleep.
\nThe regime also banished two other senior officials, Seoul said, the latest in a slew of punishments Kim is believed to have ordered in what analysts say is an attempt to tighten his grip on power.
\n“Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed,” Seoul\u00b4s Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said at a regular briefing.
\nKim was killed by a firing squad in July as “an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator,” added an official at the ministry, who declined to be named.
\nKim Yong-Jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum” during a session of North Korea\u00b4s parliament, and then underwent an interrogation that revealed other “crimes”, the official told reporters.
\nThe mass-selling JoongAng Ilbo reported on Wednesday that top regime figures had been punished, but identified the education official by a different name.
\n“He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting presided over by Kim,” it quoted a source as saying.
\n“He was arrested on site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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