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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Thu May 30, 2019, 09:40 PM May 2019

Holy crap-N Korean envoy was reportedly executed over failed summit between Kin Jong Un & Trump

Holy crap. North Korean envoy Kim Hyok Chol was reportedly executed over the failed summit between Kim Jong Un & Trump. Four other NK foreign ministry officials were reportedly executed, too, and a top aide for Kim Jong Un was punished with hard labor.


North Korea executed its former top nuclear envoy with the U.S. along with four other foreign ministry officials in March after a failed summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in Vietnam, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported.

Kim Hyok Chol, who led working-level negotiations for the February summit in Hanoi, was executed by firing squad after being charged with espionage for allegedly being co-opted by the U.S., the newspaper said, citing an unidentified source. The move was part of an internal purge Kim undertook after the summit broke down without any deal, it said.

Previous reports in South Korea media about senior North Korean officials being executed have proven false. Speculation has swirled for months about the fate of Kim Hyok Chol, who hasn’t received any mentions in state media reports.

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Kim Jong Un’s top aide Kim Yong Chol is reportedly undergoing hard labor, according to the South Korean newspaper report.



MORE:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/north-korea-envoy-executed-over-trump-kim-summit-chosun-reports


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Holy crap-N Korean envoy was reportedly executed over failed summit between Kin Jong Un & Trump (Original Post) kpete May 2019 OP
Bolton and Pompeo...did you get the message? Demonaut May 2019 #1
Well, it may not have happened on 5th Avenue, procon May 2019 #2
If this is what he does to his own people... Baitball Blogger May 2019 #3
Everything Trump touches, dies. Efilroft Sul May 2019 #4
Kim Yong Chol: dalton99a May 2019 #5
Now THAT is the kind........ MyOwnPeace May 2019 #6
Donnie boy is jealous that he can't do the same Cousin Dupree May 2019 #7
No kidding...who would be on his list? at140 May 2019 #9
Hillary, Comey, McCain (he'd have him dug up and put in front of a firing squad), to name a few Cousin Dupree May 2019 #10
Comey & McCain yes, Hillary no at140 May 2019 #11
It nauseates me that Trump admires the type of person who operates like this. smirkymonkey May 2019 #8

procon

(15,805 posts)
2. Well, it may not have happened on 5th Avenue,
Thu May 30, 2019, 09:55 PM
May 2019

but Trump must be chiseling these notches on something.

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
6. Now THAT is the kind........
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:10 PM
May 2019

of "leadership" IQ45 loves, respects, and wants.

And there's 33% of America that probably see no problem with that................

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. It nauseates me that Trump admires the type of person who operates like this.
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:15 PM
May 2019

Previews of coming attractions. Another four years and I have no doubt that this will be happening here.

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