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North Korean Defense Minister Executed With Anti-Aircraft Gun For Napping
There was some confusion what caused the fallout between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his defense minister, Hyon Yong Chol. According to Reuters Chol was charged with treason, including disobeying Kim. According to Bloomberg, his offense was more trivial: he fell asleep. The defense minister "was captured napping in video footage of the event late last month."
As a point of reference, the North Korean defense minister is one of the most influential positions in the country, along with the chief of general staff and the head of the military’s political bureau. Hyon had been in the role since June last year.
Whichever one is true is irrelevant, but one thing is certain: nobody will ever be caught napping at official events ever again because while the catalyst that set Jong Un off may be unclear, Chol's fate is now know: he was executed in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, according to Seoul's National Intelligence Service, the latest in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge.
Reuters adds that his execution was watched by hundreds of people, according to NIS intelligence shared with lawmakers.
It was not clear how the NIS obtained the information and it is not possible to independently verify such reports from within secretive North Korea.
"The NIS official said it had been confirmed by multiple sources. It is still just intelligence, but he said they were confident," Shin Kyoung-min, a lawmaker and member of the opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, who attended the briefing, told Reuters.
Experts on North Korea said there was no sign of instability in Pyongyang, but there could be if purges continued.
Chol is just the latest casualty in a rising total of "purges" ordered by the young North Korean dictator as he feels his control on power may be slipping: "Kim had previously ordered the execution of 15 senior officials this year as punishment for challenging his authority, according to the NIS. In all, some 70 officials have been executed since Kim took over after his father's death in 2011, Yonhap news agency cited the NIS as saying."
The list of those purged his uncle and one-time deputy, Jang Song Thaek. In January, he executed General Pyon In Son, head of operations in the army, for disagreeing with him. He also executed about 50 officials last year on charges ranging from graft to watching South Korean soap operas.
It is unclear whether a purge of Kim himself could follow, and whether he would be replaced with an even more hard core leader.
"There is no clear or present danger to Kim Jong Un's leadership or regime stability, but if this continues to happen into next year, then we should seriously start to think about revising our scenarios on North Korea," said Michael Madden, an expert on the country's leadership who contributes to the 38 North think tank in Washington.
Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea specialist at Dongguk University in Seoul, said the regime could "reach its limit" if Kim's purges continued. "But it's still too early to tell," said Koh.
Bloomberg cites Oh Gyeong Seob, a North Korea researcher at the Sejong Institute near Seoul, who adds that “The purge shows the extreme steps he has to take to have a complete grip on power,” said by phone. “This may hurt the stability of his regime down the line” because the top brass in North Korea may feel threatened by Kim’s brutality, Oh said.
But back to Hyon, and his capital offense: terminal napping.
Hyon was said to have shown disrespect to Kim by dozing off at a military event, the Seoul lawmakers said, citing the agency briefing. Hyon was also believed to have voiced complaints against Kim and had not followed his orders several times, according to the lawmakers.
He was arrested in late April and executed three days later without legal proceedings, the NIS told lawmakers.
All things considered, it could have been worse: Hyon could have merely had a visit from a lethal drone operated out of Nevada, and disappeared in an unsourced explosion, with the same effect.
At least North Korea has the courage to own up to its political executions.

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What would he do to Obama for sucking all thoses cocks?
That was a real stupid comment - go back to your pornography.
No casket needed; just picking up the larger (soft ball size) fragments or just left them to the birds.
ZPU is a Russian made anti-aircraft gun using 14.5 mm ammunition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2f2e8eYGTE (I doubt he felt anything and I doubt there was much left of him)
Yeah, the same degree of respect we have for the unborn. It's easy to be cavalier. But don't let me bother, party on.
"If you are pregnant, then it is a baby" - a nation who legalizes the torture and murder of any child has no future except that of divine judgment which is the way of all nations under the sun.
Babies are children that have been born. Zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are pieces of gloop that might become babies, so they can be easily flushed when convenient.
Why are religious folks so against abortion. Didn't yahweh tell the Israelites to kill "everything that breathes" when She gave the Israelites the OK to commit genocide in their bible stories. "Everything that breathes" includes zygotes, fetuses, babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, as well as mom, dad and the grandparents. God is perfectly OK with killing and genocide. (She a fan of slavery too, but that is a discussion for another day.)
You are disrespecting Yahweh (a sin) when you suggest that there are no good reasons to kill. Try reading Leviticus, which has an encyclopedic list of potential victims. There is nothing your bible god likes better than the taste of blood.
I think the real problem is that religious men don't like the idea of women controlling their own bodies, because they yearn for the good old days when women were chattel property, servants and breeding stock, and nothing more.
"Look at me, i can fly, i am free !"
"Sorry, not acording to our anti-arcraft gatling".
YOU just had to get your jab in on the U.S. drones.... very pathetic!
Yea, well, I’ll take a hellfire drone hit or quick AA gun burst over being Gitmoed and rendered indefinitely there, Sport.
Don't forget we can all make the undesirables list for NOT napping through an o-fishy-all cartoon shit show presentation in the good ole USSA now that the 1st Amendment is pretty much toast.
~ DC
That chubby boy sure knows how to have a good time.
When Kim's cat shits outside the litter box he will an old Nazi railway gun at point blank range while giving a thumbs up to the camera.
This seems par for the course, coming from a country whose reigning president has been dead for decades.
I'm a bit confused.
Was he shot in front of that rig, I think a 25mm anti aircraft gun, or by it?
If he was shot in front of it, this guy is a sick sadistic bastard, if he was shot by it, he must have one he'll of a sense of humour, like his photo shows.
You mean the sound of that gun firing was just used to wake him up ?
Perhaps they wanted to give him a fair chance and throw him off an airplane and then see who would win: the AA gun or him....
Anyway, a good way to execute this little fuck of a dictator is to mount his ass up an AA gun and then fire it.
Just spitballin' in the good ole USA here.
On the one hand, bankers and lamp posts...
On the other hand, bankers and AA guns - making them actually aerial before the shooting could be optional.
Even the worse of the worse can have an intriguing idea once (in a while).
Lets compromise.. hand them from a bridge, cut them loose after five minutes, target practice from the shore line, as they fall. if they swim away with their hands tied behind their back their Reprieved..
humor you sick NSA.. peeping toms
Are you suggesting we push them off the roofs of the Financial District and fire AA guns upon their descent? Or wait until the market collapses and they are jumping out of their office windows on purpose?
120mm mortar to the chest; it is what is next for the next perceived dissenter in N. Korea..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdZc5RfKqyA
Film at 11:00?
Guess what Kim. He's still napping.........
OK, that's fucking bad-ass. Seriously. No mucking about there...
Given a choice it seems a humane way to off someone, much better than death by injection of drugs which never seems to go as planned here in USA.
Way better than toiling to death in the gulags...
I don't believe this silly story.
Neither do I. O's bullshit machine is in constant hyperdrive. The USSA media has no credibility. I'd check with other news orgs from outside of the Ministry of Truth to verify...this should be done with everything these assholes put out there.
https://youtu.be/jEJqEuM5V68
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colours burst
Make 'em go, "Aah, aah, aah"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe.
Pink mist with a slight odor of Kimchi.
What, no flamethrower handy?
"Go ahead......make my day!
if anyone believe this was the actual reason these guys were killed they are idiots. why do people on ZH hate the gov bs yet fall for this shit. these guys were a threat to kim-boy and he axed them........
Gotta motivate the troops when you are military commader in chief.
Military dictatorships tend to appoint rulers and tend to suffer occasional assasinations. Not unlike the U.S. which has suffered many assassination attempts, several fatal. The bullet which almost killed Reagan sure did manage to reverse a lot of his policies and campaign promises.
It wasn't a bullet, it was a Planchet. Doctor couldn't find it on the first exam. Had to look a second time, No big bullet hole only a thin little slit under his arm, reached in a pulled out the CIA planchet that the body guard(who pushed him into the car) put in him.
That's why reagan thought the guy busted his rib pushing him in. After that it was a George Bush Sr. Presidency. Reagan in name only.
"...did manage to reverse a lot of his policies and campaign promises....
George Bush SR.(recent Head of CIA) REVERSED Reagan's policies.
Come on folks Know your assinations....
Google 'Reagan planchet'
When they take Ronald Reagan in, they can see that he... matter of fact, his heart almost stopped. And he is convulsing; there's blood on his lips. They know he's hurt... seriously. But they can find no wounds. They X-ray him three times and can find nothing.
Finally, a nurse notices a tiny entrance wound right at the seventh rib, underneath the armpit. And a doctor takes a probe, and by... very carefully, because they couldn't see it on X-ray, the doctor is able to extract what he said was a planchet, thinner than a dime, that was one-quarter inch from Ronald Reagan's aorta
You are right. Probably the only fact here is that the defense minister was executed. The rest is just storytelling.
Would someone just kill that fat psychopath - with a dull meat clever.
Kimmy just wanted to see what a human body looks like when plastered by an AA gun. That's all there is to that. Just don't be in the right place at the wrong time in N. Korea, is the takeaway.
In NK, your pension is simply having lived to a retirement age...
Hillary got a woody thinking about that kind of tyrannical power. Destroying nations is just not enough.....
Grimaldus
the us government could and should kill this motherfucker and his inner circle and free the north korean people, who would rush to reunify and would be a fantastic economic boon for korea.
it would also send some cheap labor to korea rather than china.
He aleady killed his inner-circle.
https://youtu.be/jEJqEuM5V68
Very sad and very frightening for the people of North Korea.
Expect another train station explosion, this one on time.
"said Michael Madden, an expert on the country's leadership who contributes to the 38 North think tank in Washington."
In other words the kind of expert who was totally amazed at the collapse of the USSR.
Just another example of sociopaths in high offices.
North Korea believes in sippenhaft, where families share responsibility for a person's crime. In NoK, to the third generation, even if they haven't been born yet.
Damn.
Does North Korea have a central bank?
Is there a video of this? Wouldn't be much left of the poor sap.
Why does the US grow a pair and just take this idiot out,
A tiny country called China. Perhaps you've heard of it.
At least he went out with bang. Why waste that ordnance?
Think of the money he saves in retirement pay!
SO YOU'VE HIT upon a brilliant plan to overthrow the North Korean leadership. We simply put ZZ-Quil pills into their cocktails. Who would have thought it would be so simple??
Kim Jong Un is FALLING APART!! He cannot maintain anybody in his retinue. He sees them all as THREATS. It is possible that Jong Un is suffering from some kind of psychological illness. North Korea cannot survive very long if this nonsense continues.
The best clue was when Kim Jong Un recently killed four members of the State Orchestra. And their crime? Apparently they didn't like the way that his wife played her musical instrument.
Kim must be feeling very shakey. Making an example of him by execution wasn't enough. Had to make it graphic. How much longer will Kim being able to stay in power (or whoever is really calling the shots)?
Does anybody know for an absolute fact that he wasn't the Quisling of Pyongyang?
Or does the MSM regain its credibility when writing about North Korea?
Sudden extralegal violent public dismemberings for naughty government officials gets my vote.
~ DC
That's one hell of a nailgun.
I hope my boss doesn't read the 'Hedge. I have practiced the delicate art of sleeping with my eyes open. Tough during allergy season b/c the nasal congestion makes me snore.
Yeah, of course this happened. Of course it did.
Saddam had nukes, we got bin Laden blah blah blah
Why do I have the feeling that this story was conceived in Washington D.C. by the same guy who told us that Putin is the richest man on earth.
We live in the age of cyber-neo-propaganda. Get used to it.
British soldiers executed Indian rebels by tying them to the mouth of a canon, now that's over-kill.
NK will be in for some humanitarian bombing after this.
Oh wait. They got nukes....