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[h=4]Report: N. Korean minister executed for disloyalty to Kim[/h]North Korea's Defense Minister Hyon Yong-chol has apparently been executed for disloyalty to the country's leader Kim Jong-un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
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North Korean defence minister Hyon Yong-Chol is executed with anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during formal military rallies, according to South Korean intelligence.
Video provided by AFP Newslook
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watching the Feb. 8, 2015, test-firing of a new type of "anti-ship rocket" to be outfitted on his military's ships. Pyongyang announced May 8 that it had tested a submarine ballistic missile.(Photo: Korean Central News Agency/AFP/Getty Images)
North Korea's Defense Minister Hyon Yong-chol has apparently been executed for disloyalty to the country's leader Kim Jong-un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
The state-run news service cited South Korea's spy agency — the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Information related to North Korea, a highly secretive country ostracized by the West for its nuclear weapons ambitions and erratic political behavior, is extremely difficult to independently confirm.
The NIS said the immediate cause of Hyon's killing was that the chief of the North Korea's People's Armed Forces, 66, may have been attempting to start a rebellion against North Korea's reclusive young leader.
The NIS didn't specify how it obtained the information. Kim is thought to have been behind a number of high-profile purges of top North Korean officials in recent times, including, notably, his uncle Jang Song Thaek, killed in 2013 for alleged treason.
Hyon Yong-chol applauds during a meeting in Pyongyang on July 18, 2012.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
Yonhap reported Hyon was seen dozing off during a recent military event presided over by Kim and that Hyon had on several occasions challenged the young ruler's authority. Kim is around 32 years of age, although that has not been verified.
Hyon was executed by firing squad that used an anti-aircraft gun around April 30, the agency said, citing the NIS.
Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Dongguk University in Seoul, told the Associated Press that Kim appears to be using purges to keep the military old guard in check because they pose the only plausible threat to his rule.
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South Korea's spy agency says it has information that North Korea executed its defense chief for sleeping during a meeting and talking back to young leader Kim Jong Un. Wochit
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