[Published: Tuesday February 28 2017]
North Korea executes officials with anti-aircraft guns
Pyongyang 28 Feb (ANA) - North Korea has executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that enraged Kim Jong-un. South Korea's spy agency the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Monday the five victims were from the state security department. They are said to have produced false reports which angered the country's leader which resulted in them being murdered with the hugely powerful weapons. The spy agency told lawmakers that five North Korean officials had been in the same department as the recently-departed state security chief Kim Won Hong, who was fired last month for allegations of corruption. It is not clear what false reports they allegedly made, and the NIS didn't say how it got its information. North Korea fired Kim Won Hong in January over corruption, abuse of power and torture committed by his agency, Seoul said earlier this month.(ANA)
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