North
Korea has publicly executed the country's defense minister after the
regime accused him of treason, according to reports from South Korea.
Hyon Yong Chol was killed by fire from an anti-aircraft gun at a military school in front of hundreds of people in Pyongyang.
Hyon was executed because he expressed discontent towards leader Kim Jong Un, and failed to follow Kim's orders on several occasions.
Hyon
was a longtime Kim family loyalist who spent years working under
North Korea's former leader Kim Jong Il as a high-ranking military
official.
His
career continued after power transferred to the younger Kim upon the
death of his father in 2011.
No comments:
Post a Comment