Defector: North Korean Army Chief Was Executed After Wiretap
SputnikNews.com
08.01.2017
A high-profile North Korean defector has offered support for theories that a former North Korean military chief, missing since 2012, was executed, likely after being wiretapped.
Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho was chief of the general staff of the North Korean army from 2009 to July 2012, when he was suddenly stripped of his North Korean Worker’s Party duties, ostensibly due to an unspecified “illness.” South Korean and Western media later reported that Ri was likely under house arrest; then that he had been executed.
Now, Thae Yong-ho, a former North Korean diplomat, has told the Yonhap news agency that in North Korea it is common knowledge that Ri was executed in 2012 — though there has been no official announcement.
“North Korean officials are careful about their remarks because of the risk of being tapped,” Thae told Yonhap. “Ri was known to have been executed because of likely wiretapping.”
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