Kim Yong Chol reappears alongside North Korean leader

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https://www.nknews.org/2019/06/amid-purge-reports-kim-yong-chol-reappears-alongside-north-korean-leader/

Amid purge reports, Kim Yong Chol reappears alongside North Korean leader
Longtime DPRK-U.S. interlocuter was last week reported to have been sent to labor, re-education camp
Oliver Hotham
June 2nd, 2019



Top North Korean official Kim Yong Chol appeared in public alongside DPRK leader Kim Jong Un at a musical performance on Sunday, the country’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, potentially defying reports last week that he had been the victim of a high-profile purge earlier in the year.

In a report on an art performance given by wives of officers of units of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), the North Korean leader was accompanied by several top officials, including Kim Yong Chol, who serves as a vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).

Reports on Friday in South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper had claimed, citing unnamed sources, that Kim had been sent to a labor and reeducation camp in the country’s remote Jagang province.

The reported purge, which the newspaper alleged to have served to punish officials for February’s failed DPRK-U.S. summit in Hanoi, was also said to have seen top North Korean envoy Kim Hyok Chol executed by firing squad.

[BigmanPigman]

1. He isn't one of those imposters that they like to use, is it?