North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un is famous in Western media for executing
people that fall out of his favor – though some seem to have found
the knack of returning from the dead.
Reports
regularly surface on Kim’s latest means of execution, ranging from
the relatively mundane firing squad to the theatrical, or even
cartoonish – such as feeding foes to packs of starving dogs or
roasting them with flame-throwers.
North
Korean pop star Hyon Song-wol was spotted alive and well on TV in
2014, despite reportedly being executed by firing squad in a purge of
singers, musicians and dancers, a year before.
The
performer was allegedly killed along with 11 other people, including
members of her group, the Moranbong Band, the head of Unhasu
Orchestra, and several dancers from the Wangjaesan Light Music Band.
The 12
victims had allegedly been accused of, among other offenses,
recording themselves having sex and selling the footage. Hyon
Song-wol, with whom Kim was reportedly romantically entwined, most
recently publicly resurfaced on Saturday to inspect Olympic venues in
South Korea ahead of the Winter Games.
Back in
2016, N. Korean army chief Ri Yong Gil was reportedly executed for
“factionalism, misuse of authority, and corruption.” As with a
lot of information emanating from the isolated country, this turned
out to false.
South
Korean intelligence officials seemed to take his removal as head of
the army as confirmation of his execution. The only problem was that
a couple of months later Ri Yong Gil apparently returned from the
dead, with an array of new senior-level positions, when he attended
the Workers’ Party Congress in May that year.
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