South Korean Report: Kim Executed Top Official After Failed U.S. Summit

US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Sau... US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his top nuclear envoy in March as retribution for the failed summit with President Donald Trump, according to a South Korean newspaper report picked up by Bloomberg News.

Kim Hyok Chol was reportedly murdered by a firing squad. The South Korean press is also reporting that four other foreign ministry officials were killed.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan could not confirm the executions.

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  1. And now Trump is more in love with Kim than ever before.

  2. Avatar for jep07 jep07 says:

    Congratulations, Donnie, your childish antics have consequences far beyond the trivial TV “star” world you dwell in.

    This isn’t playtime. You aren’t qualified to be on this stage and your perpetual presence has become a liability for all humankind, in every corner of the globe.

    From our southern border to Moscow to Pyongyang, your incompetence is pulling us all down to the lowest level.

    I wish you would just resign and let us all move on.

    But I know how your ego works, and that despite your daily, profound failures, you will proceed as if you are succeeding, even as the whole world swirls into chaos because YOU took advantage of the Republican lust for cheap ratings when their 2016 debates were staged.

    You are a joke, and you’ll wear the biggest asterisk in Presidential history because you deigned to abuse our infant democracy, as just another whore to monger.

    Go pretend you are better than this. Only you can entertain those delusions.

  3. Looking forward to numnuts explaining this one away. This one will take some creativity.

  4. Avatar for jep07 jep07 says:

    He has pictures of Kim. And vice versa…

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