North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports

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Source: Bloomberg

Kim Hyok Chol, who led working-level negotiations for the summit in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in February, was executed with four other North Korean foreign ministry officials in March, Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source.

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



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

[mercuryblues]

1. That is trump's idol

while he calls Mueller a National disgrace

[hlthe2b]

2. Good gawd... This will mean nothing to Trump, of course.

Two monsters--one just slightly more open about his murderous tactics (Trump kills his hidden away in "detention camps" wrested from their mothers, it seems).

[lagomorph777]

29. Trump is a monster: kidnapper and child-murderer. No child in America is safe.

We need to keep this in the public eye.

[Eugene]

3. 😬 This is 45's idea of a "real leader" and a "great guy."

ugh

[Sneederbunk]

4. Pompeo may want to sleep with one eye open.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. A nice guy "who really cares about his people." F both of you dotards.

[dalton99a]

6. Kim Hyok Chol was North Korea's special envoy to the United States

and Kim Yong Chol was Mike Pompeo’s counterpart in pre-summit meetings

[left-of-center2012]

7. Trump is in love with Kim

But Trump made it clear today how much he hates John McCain.

[rpannier]

8. It is possible that it's true

But always be wary of anything coming out of the Chosun Ilbo
They are the second most conservative newspaper in the country and the sell an agenda

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9. Reuters also reports NK announced the execution

North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary on Thursday that “Acting like one is revering the Leader in front (of others) but dreaming of something else when one turns around, is an anti-Party, anti-revolutionary act that has thrown away the moral fidelity toward the Leader, and such people will not avoid the stern judgment of the revolution.”

“There are traitors and turncoats who only memorize words of loyalty toward the Leader and even change according to the trend of the time,” the commentary said.

It is the first time since the December 2013 execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un’s uncle, that expressions hinting at purging such as “anti-party, anti-revolutionary” and “stern judgment” appeared in Rodong Sinmun, Chosun Ilbo said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-purge/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-carrying-out-purge-after-hanoi-summit-collapse-chosun-ilbo-idUSKCN1T02PD

[rpannier]

12. I don't see it in their (Rodong Shinmun) English website

I'll check their Korean whe I get a chance

This is the link for their English site. It's kind of amusing

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/

I also checked kcna watch and didn't find it in the first articles on North Korea. I could have missed it though
KCNA covers both the English and Korean reports. I didn't see it in the Korean reports.

https://kcnawatch.org/

But, it gives me something to look for
Reuters appears to be taking its story from Chosun as well

[TeamPooka]

10. That's just going to make Trump jealous.

[JI7]

11. Trump wants to know why he can't do that to others

and how unfair it is and there he is the victim.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Why can't I execute those who criticize and oppose me? Why? Why?? Not fair. He gets to!

[BigmanPigman]

17. Don't give him any ideas.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. I bet that thought has already crossed his mind. He likes the way strongmen think and act.

That's why he's been questioning why he's only limited to two terms.

[Golden Raisin]

14. Trump would love to be able to banish, jail

or execute his "disloyal" courtiers, or anyone else he felt slighted or opposed him.

[BadGimp]

15. That's pretty harsh!

[SCVDem]

16. Harsh?

Losing our country is acceptable?

Study much history?

[Ilsa]

18. And the people accept it because their propaganda

states that Kim Jung Un is a god, a real diety.

[getagrip_already]

22. or...

They simply don't have a choice. in a country gripped by famine and economic collapse, where even a negative comment can get you jailed or worse, ans where there are spies everywhere - including your own house, what choice do they have?

Allso, it's entirely possible these diplomats were outed by trump himself, or one of the brats. Our intel service probably picked up the comments during the meetings and put them in a briefing. Off to kim they went. They probably got branding rights to some stretch of beach or a city somewhere.

[Ilsa]

26. Absolutely. And I have no doubt that both the

Kushner demon and the trump demons outed someone as a favor to at least one dictator. I'm hoping our IC is keeping these things in mind as they report to them. I suspect our allies are withholding details within information to protect sources and state secrets.

[SunSeeker]

20. Trump's jealous he can't do shit like that. nt

[question everything]

28. Pretty much

[jmowreader]

21. I think if I was a North Korean diplomat I'd defect

Working for Kim Jong Un is even more unhealthy than working for a Mafia family.

[Paladin]

23. If this had happened when Obama was president.....

….the Repubes would already be circulating pictures of the dead guy's bereaved family, and ranting about it, 24/7.

trump keeps handing us despicable shit like this, day after day, and we're not taking advantage of it. IMPEACH NOW.

[KPN]

24. And the fucking moron in the White House admires Kim Jong Un.

When in the fuck are the Rs in the Senate going to wake the fuck up about the danger this fucking insane tiny penis represents to our national as well as the world's welfare?!

This is on all of them -- McTurtle and all of the corrupt and compromised foreign agents, fascists and Repugnant supremacists in the Senate. I frankly wish them all great harm.

Sorry for the language and frankness, but this situation is dangerously unacceptable and potentially catastrophic for us all in my estimation.

[The Liberal Lion]

25. trump is slobbering most likely over this considering how much of a fanboy he is of Kim

[Nitram]

27. Oops! I'll bet Trump wishes he had that power.

[Eugene]

30. US checking reports North Korea executed envoy, says Pompeo

Source: The Guardian and agencies

US checking reports North Korea executed envoy, says Pompeo

South Korean paper claims Kim Hyok-chol has been killed and a negotiator put in forced labour

Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
Fri 31 May 2019 13.00 BST First published on Fri 31 May 2019 00.39 BST

Mike Pompeo has said the US is attempting to check reports that a senior North Korean official involved in Pyongyang’s nuclear negotiations with Washington had been executed.

“We’ve seen the reporting to which you are referring,” the US secretary of state told a news conference in Berlin in answer to a question. “We’re doing our best to check it out. I don’t have anything else to add to that today.”

Earlier on Friday, a South Korean newspaper reported that Kim Hyok-chol, the North’s special envoy to the US, had been executed over the failure of the recent summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump.

South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper claimed Kim and foreign ministry officials who conducted working-level preparations for February’s doomed Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi were killed in March.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/north-korea-executes-envoy-to-us-after-trump-summit-failures