Timeline: North Korean Defense Ministers during Kim Jong Un’s Rule.
38 North: The Rise and Fall of General Hyon Yong Chol
Kim Jong Un dismissed Hyon Yong Chol as North Korea’s minister of defense around April 30, 2015—this much we know, but little else about his fate is certain. South Korean intelligence reported the following month that the regime executed Hyon, but in truth, it remains unclear today if he is dead or alive.
If South Korean intelligence is correct, Hyon’s death would mark a grisly end to an illustrious military career and feed into Seoul’s narrative of a bloody wave of purges carried out by Kim Jong Un.
But a number of signs suggest that the ROK government’s report of Hyon’s death is premature. North Korea has so far revealed no direct or circumstantial evidence to support the ROK National Intelligence Service (NIS) allegation, and the South Korean agency’s past record does little to inspire confidence.[4] Moreover, no one outside Kim’s inner circle knows what prompted Hyon’s ouster, casting doubt on whether his presumed misstep justified the execution of a 66-year-old regime stalwart.
WNU Editor: If these reports are true .... Kim Jung-Un clearly does not trust the military.
2 comments:
A promotion everyone fears.
My father in law made certain that he could avoid the majority of that crap, when he decided to be upper middle class but not upper class in a classless society. He did not have to worry about internecine factional bloodletting.
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