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North Korea's Vice Premier Choe Yong Gon Executed On Orders Of Kim Jong-Un

Kim Jong-Un Executes North Korea's Vice Premier For A Crazy Reason
Paul Vale
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The head of North Korean delegation, Choe Yong-gon, deputy minister of construction and building material industries, waves as he leaves to North Korea after the inter-Korean economic talks in Seoul Tuesday, July 12, 2005. South Korea agreed Tuesday to provide North Korea with 500,000 tons in rice aid as the countries vowed to boost economic ties after the North announced it would end its boycott of nuclear disarmament talks. (AP Photo /You Sung-Ho, POOL)
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The vice premier of North Korea was reportedly executed in May on the orders of Kim Jong-un. According to Reuters, Choe Yong Gon was killed by firing squad after a dispute with the leader over the country's forestry policies.

South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday that Gon had become the latest high-ranking official to lose his life on the orders of the country's dictator.

The 62-year-old, a former diplomat for the tasked with improving relations with the south, had not been spotted in more than eight months. South Korean spies said he had been executed earlier this year.

Kim has ordered the executions of more than 70 high ranking North Korean officials since he took charge in 2011. In April, former defense chief Hyon Yong-Chol was reportedly executed by a large anti-aircraft gun for falling asleep during a military parade.

North Korea's Craziest Threats
January 1951(01 of07)
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Six months after invading North Korean forces started the Korean War, North Korean leader and founder Kim Il Sung says in a speech that U.S. and South Korean forces were the actual invaders and had prompted his army to retaliate. Kim vows to annihilate the North's enemies.

Caption: In this 1951 photo, Kim Il Sung talks to a North Korean combatant at the battlefront. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Images) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
1994(02 of07)
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A North Korean negotiator threatens to turn Seoul into "a sea of fire."

Caption: Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (credit:AP)
September 1996(03 of07)
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North Korea threatens "hundredfold and thousandfold retaliation" against South Korean troops who had captured or killed armed North Korean agents who had used a submarine to sneak into the South.

Caption: North Korean soldiers gather along a Pyongyang street during heavy snowfall on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (credit:AP)
January 2002(04 of07)
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After President George W. Bush labels North Korea part of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and Iran, Pyongyang calls the remark "little short of a declaration of war." North Korea's foreign ministry warns it "will never tolerate the U.S. reckless attempt to stifle the (North) by force of arms but mercilessly wipe out the aggressors."

In this Jan. 29, 2002 file photo, President George W. Bush gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vice President Dick Cheney is at rear.(AP Photo/Doug Mills) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
November 2011(05 of07)
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A day after South Korea conducts large-scale military drills near the island hit by the North in 2010, the North's Korean People's Army threatens to turn Seoul's presidential palace into a "sea of fire."

Caption: In this Feb. 16, 2013, image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, waves as he attends a statue unveiling ceremony at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video) (credit:AP)
April 2012(06 of07)
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North Korea holds a massive rally denouncing conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak as a "rat." It says he should be struck with a "retaliatory bolt of lightning" because of his confrontational approach toward Pyongyang.

Caption: South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak attends the 15th ASEAN - South Korea Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
June 2012(07 of07)
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North Korea's military warns that troops have aimed artillery at seven South Korean media groups to express outrage over criticism in Seoul of ongoing children's festivals in Pyongyang. It threatens a "merciless sacred war."

Caption: South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (credit:AP)
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