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North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
By John Bowden - 05/30/19 07:17 PM EDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly ordered the execution of several top officials in March after they were unable to reach an agreement with President Trump at a second summit between the two leaders earlier this year.

Bloomberg News reported Thursday citing a South Korean newspaper that Kim Hyok Chol, North Korea's special envoy to the U.S., was executed in March along with four other North Korean foreign ministry officials involved in the Hanoi, Vietnam, summit.

A fifth official, Kim Jong Un’s top deputy, Kim Yong Chol, has reportedly been sentenced to hard labor, according to the newspaper.


This breaking news report will be updated.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/446267-north-korea-envoy-was-executed-over-failed-trump-kim-summit-report
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2019, 08:03:11 am »
First, note:

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'Certain rumors have been circulating around #KimHyokChol for a while, yet one should also remember that those reported executed in #NorthKorea have been known to spring back to life,' @GordonGChang tells @ericlandskroner:

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1134290490730438657

I will assume this is true, what is stated above, otherwise:

Kim Yong Chol, sentenced to hard labor.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/kim-jong-un-executes-four-officials-over-failed-trump-summit

How can summits be carried out knowing that if one fails, they may be executed?

Not as fortunate, Kim Hyok Chol (center)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/north-korea-envoy-executed-over-trump-kim-summit-chosun-reports

Note, how the names are also virtually almost the same. I assume the reporting is most likely true but that means, there may well be undercover journalists in the North.
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2019, 08:39:27 am »
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But it's important to note that both South Korean media and the government in Seoul have a history of reporting scoops about the inner workings of North Korea that turn out to be wrong. Supposedly executed officials have later appeared trotting alongside Kim on state TV after their reported demise.

Friday's report is based on a single, unidentified "source who knows about North Korea" — with no details about where that source got their information.
The report so far hasn't been matched by any major media in Seoul or confirmed by government officials, even anonymously.

The newspaper's source said that senior envoy Kim Hyok Chol was executed at the Mirim airfield with four other officials from the North's Foreign Ministry for betraying Kim Jong Un after being won over by the U.S. Kim Hyok Chol led working-level negotiations as North Korea's special representative for U.S. affairs ahead of February's summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in Hanoi.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/amid-reports-of-nkorean-purge-there-are-reasons-for-caution

I think I do remember one case of someone reported executed showing up later. I think it was some military official with those big hats.

At the least, more confirmation is needed but that probably is not a realistic expectation.
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2019, 06:18:05 pm »
US checking reports North Korea executed top official after Trump summit, Pompeo says

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/north-korea-execution-report-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F


Will Kim get the same “maybe he did, maybe he didn’t” treatment as Mohammed bin Salman over Khashoggi?
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2019, 09:12:27 pm »
NK trying to say the execution story is bull, at least with this official.



https://twitter.com/Michael_NKLW/status/1134546065590382592


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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2019, 09:43:25 pm »
"He asks what part of the deal you did not understand. He says perhaps his transrator did not make it clear to you. He says he should fire his translator?"


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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2019, 11:55:06 pm »
Following executions, the U.S. must break off talks with North Korea and play real hardball

Published 15 hours ago on May 31, 2019   

By JD Rucker ï‚™
   
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It's time for @POTUS to cut ties and play hardball with extreme sanctions. No more attempts at flattery or compromise. The madman in North Korea is not worthy of dealing with America regardless of what he thinks about Joe Biden. https://nypost.com/2019/05/30/kim-jong-un-executed-officials-after-failed-february-summit-with-us-report/ …
 
11:22 PM - May 30, 2019
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is a madman.

If this is verified, and at this point there’s no reason to think it won’t be, then it’s time to put an end to the failed North Korean experiment and start treating the regime as the anti-American, anti-sanity dictatorship that it is. We’ve tried to reason with them. We’ve showered them with compliments. We’ve given them their space and allowed them to be aggressors for long enough.

The President must impose the harshest possible sanctions and treat them as if they’re a loose cannon in the hip pockets of both China and Russia.

Will it start a war? Possibly. But the notion that some have of relieving sanctions and letting them, essentially a repeat of the Clinton doctrines of the 90s, will only encourage them to achieve their nuclear ambitions and dominate our allies in South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. This is unacceptable.

<..snip..>

https://noqreport.com/2019/05/31/following-executions-u-s-must-break-off-talks-north-korea-play-real-hardball/


   Thought I'd bury this here (for now) @TomSea since JD Rucker does not really have a favorable following here.  Thanks for your cooperation.
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2019, 12:53:28 am »
See, a lot of this info becomes obsolete pretty quick. Probably at the time Rucker wrote this, we didn't know there is a chance the executions, some or all did not take place. As said, we already know, Kim has probably done some ruthless things.

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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2019, 03:18:23 am »
North Korea's former top nuclear envoy seen with Kim Jong Un on Sunday -KCNA

https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-koreas-former-top-nuclear-230037841.html


They gave him a weekend pass for a photo op.
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Re: North Korea envoy executed over failed Trump-Kim summit: report
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2019, 04:11:37 am »
   Are you implying @edpc that The Hill makes $hit up too?




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