Hyon has reportedly been
executed by firing squad for falling asleep during a meeting and talking back
to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
Mr Hyon was killed on 30 April
by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience of hundreds, the Yonhap news
agency reports.
He was as close to Kim Jong-un
as it is possible to get, yet he was made to go through a public and brutal
method of execution as obliteration by anti-aircraft gun to emphasise the cost
of disloyalty.
You see, the violent and sudden
death of Hyon, who had been appointed to defense chief less than a year ago,
would not be the first since Kim Jong-Un took power.
Kim, who has arranged several
purges since assuming power in 2011, has ordered the execution of at least 15
senior officials so far this year, BBC reports.
Earlier this week, CNN reported
that a senior North Korean official who defected claimed Kim Jong-Un ordered
his aunt Kim Kyong Hui be poisoned.
The official claimed Kim wanted
to silence his aunt, who was angry after the execution of her husband Jang Song
Thaek, Kim’s presumed No. 2.
What a leader!
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