Yet another North Korean general is
killed by the Pyongyang regime. That’s the story that’s been doing the rounds
this week after a South Korean news agency quoted an anonymous South Korean
official from an unnamed South Korean agency as saying that Ri Yong Gil, chief
of the Korean People’s Army [KPA] general staff, had been executed for
corruption.
It fits with the pattern that has emerged
since Kim Jong Un took over the leadership of North Korea from his father at
the end of 2011: Aging members of the old guard dispatched by young upstart
leader. After all, it happened with Hyon Yong Chol, the defense minister executed
by anti-aircraft gun for insubordination and treason.