Evening Standard

Kim ‘orders executions with anti-aircraft gun’

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TWO senior North Korean officials have reportedly been executed with an anti-aircraft gun on the orders of Kim Jong-un.

South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said that Ri Yong Jin, of the education ministry, was arrested for falling asleep during a meeting with North Korean tyrant Kim, above, and charged with corruption before being killed. Former agricultur­e minister Hwang Min was purged over a proposed project seen as a direct challenge to Kim’s leadership, the paper reported.

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