Pyongyang
Purge rumors: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un had five members of his negotiating team executed after the failure of February’s Hanoi summit with President Trump, a South Korean newspaper reported last week. The paper, Chosun Ilbo, also reported that Kim Yong Chol—a former spy chief and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s counterpart in talks—had been sentenced to hard labor and ideological re-education. But other reports said that at least one of the supposedly executed men is still in custody, and North Korean media this week published a photo of Kim Yong Chol sitting near Kim Jong Un at an art performance. One source told CNN that Kim Yong Chol has been “kept silently in his office writing statements of self-criticism.”