Kim Jong Un ‘has staged 70 executions’

Cheong also pointed out the opposing tendencies of the current government and ex- president Kim Dae-jung’s administration on inter-Korean relations.

Kim has removed key members of the old guard through a series of purges since taking over after the death of his father Kim Jong Illinois.

So far about 28,000 North Koreans have resettled in the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

In 2005, a South Korean court convicted a North Korean agent for Rev. Kim’s abduction to North Korea, where he is believed to have died from starvation and torture.

Those remarks prompted an mad response from Pyongyang, where the official Korea Asia Pacific Committee issued a statement indicating that the visit could be called off.

They said Monday was “a crucial day” for Korea.

Regarding Lee’s possible meeting with the top DPRK leader, Kim Seong-jae said that it depended on the DPRK.

Food safety is a particular concern for Kim Jong Un and the farm only employs young, single North Koreans in their twenties of good class standing.

Lee will visit a kindergarten and medical care center for children in Pyongyang.

Gay and transgender people live largely under the radar in a country that remains deeply conservative about matters of sexual identity and where many still regard homosexuality as a foreign phenomenon.

The South Korean government notified North Korea through the Panmunjom telephone line, the only channel of civil communication between the two Koreas.

North Korea’s “highest authorities” now scrutinize fruits and vegetables cultivated in the greenhouses, the source told Daily NK.

“If all our citizens are not returned promptly and continue to be held, we will take a firmer responsive measure”.

“If party leader Choi Ryong Hae or North Korean Prime Mister Park Bong Ju, or their relatives, defect to South Korea, it is open to interpretation that the regime is facing a severe crisis”, he said.

In May, the North said it was holding a South Korean student for illegal entry.