North Korea executes 5 officials over failed Kim-Trump summit: South Korean media
North
Korea has executed five officials for their part in the failed second
summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,
according to a South Korean newspaper.
Citing the newspaper, Bloomberg News
reported that Kim Hyok Chol, North Korea's special envoy to the U.S.,
was executed by firing squad in March for being "won over by the
American imperialists to betray the supreme leader."
The paper
also claimed that four other North Korean Foreign Ministry
officials were executed that same month because of the breakdown of the
February summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, but did not provide details.
Kim Hyok Chol, North Korea's special envoy to the U.S., and four
other North Korean foreign ministry officials, were executed because of
the breakdown of the February North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.
(REUTERS, File)
Trump’s
much-anticipated summit with Kim ended abruptly and without the two
leaders signing any agreements over nuclear disarmament.
Kim aide Kim Yong Chol is reportedly undergoing hard labor for his role in the breakdown. (REUTERS, File)
Top Kim aide Kim Yong Chol is reportedly undergoing hard labor for his role in the breakdown.
He had been Kim’s most trusted policy adviser and was removed from one of his posts.
President Trump meeting with Kim Yong Chol this past January 18 in
the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead,
File)
He
even was seen in photos with President Trump at the White House over
the past year, delivering letters from the North Korean dictator.
Kim
Yong Chol has been North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator and the
counterpart of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo since Kim entered
nuclear talks with the U.S. early last year. Fox News' Bradford Betz contributed to this story.
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