Kim Jong-un Has His Former Military Chief of Staff, Ri Yong-gil Executed for Corruption

Kim Jong-un is either taking a very hardline against corruption or this is just a cover to eliminate people he doesn’t completely trust or may be it is both:

Picture of Ri Yong-gil via BBC.

North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, which, if true, would be the latest in a series of executions, purges, and disappearances under the country’s young leader.

The news comes amid heightened tension surrounding the isolated North Korea after its Sunday launch of a long-range rocket, which came about a month after it drew international condemnation for conducting its fourth nuclear test.

A source familiar with North Korean affairs also told Reuters that Ri had been executed. The source declined to be identified, given the sensitivity of the matter.

Ri, who was chief of the Korean People’s Army General Staff, was executed this month for corruption and factional conspiracy, Yonhap and other South Korean media reported.  [Business Insider via reader tip]

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MTB Rider
8 years ago

And now Kaesong Industrial Park is closed, and all assets seized by North Korea:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/korea-shuts-down-joint-industrial-055734831.html

I’m glad Park, Geun-Hye is no longer willing to put up with the North’s Shenanigans. She let the North shut down the park last time, and they had to come back, hat in hand to ask her to return. Now SHE is the one to take the initiative, and the North played right into her hands.

Don’t go back until Fatty Kim is gone. That guy is seriously unstable.

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setnaffa
8 years ago

Fatty could be in trouble. No more Choco Pies for workers!! That could start something…

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