North Korea Vice Premier Choe Yong-Gon ‘Executed For Opposing Kim Jong

AFP, citing an anonymous source who spoke to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, says that Choe Yong-gon expressed concern at Kim’s forestry policies.

North Korean coordinator Kim Jong Un attemps a homestead equipment exhibit in such a undated photography delivered by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang August five, 2015.

Poor infrastructure and rising demand mean many North Korean cities produce their own beers, although none sell as well as Taedonggang Beer, a lager produced in a factory made from old British parts that was personally ordered by late leader Kim Jong Illinois.

Choe was appointed vice-premier last year, North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency reported previously.

South Korea’s unification ministry, which handles the country’s ties with North Korea, said Choe had not been spotted in public for about eight months and that it was closely monitoring the situation.

Kim, believed to be in his early 30s, has repeatedly reshuffled senior army officials in a move analysts say was aimed at forcing them to remain loyal to the young ruler.

“Choe appeared to have been executed around the same time when Gen. Hyon Yong-chol was executed”, an intelligence source said.

Choe had worked towards bolstering inter-Korean affairs in the 2000s, leading North Korea’s delegation to joint economic cooperation committiees with South Korea between 2003 and 2005.

Information related to the highly secretive nation of North Korea is extremely hard to confirm independently.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has praised the “guerrilla-style” tactics of the women’s national football team after their victory in the East Asian Cup. Kim executed his powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek in December 2013 and continued to purge other top military and government officials.

It is suffering from its worst drought in almost a century, and close to a third of the country’s rice paddies have dried up.

But if confirmed, Yong-gon would be one of more than 70 North Korean government officials to lose his life after Kim assumed control of the country following his father’s death in 2011.