North Korea state media says former top nuclear envoy is alive
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-koreas-former-top-nuclear-envoy-seen-with-kim-jong-un-on-sunday-kcna-idUSKCN1T30VZ
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean senior official and former top nuclear envoy Kim Yong Chol accompanied leader Kim Jong Un to a Sunday art performance, state media KCNA said on
Monday, signaling that the former spymaster is alive and remains a force in North Korea’s power structure.
South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported on Friday that Kim Yong Chol, Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man and the counterpart to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before the failed
Hanoi summit, had been sent to a labor and re-education camp in Jagang Province near the Chinese border, citing an unidentified North Korea source.
During an amateur art performance by the wives of officers in the North Korean Army attended by Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, on Sunday, Kim Yong Chol was among “leading
officials” who accompanied them, according to KCNA on Monday. He was the 10th official named among 12 mentioned overall.
As Kim Jong Un’s point man for nuclear talks with the United States, Kim Yong Chol was apparently censured for the summit’s collapse by being removed from a key party post, a South
Korean lawmaker said in April.
The Chosun Ilbo story, which Reuters was unable to independently confirm, also said North Korea executed its working-level nuclear envoy to the United States, Kim Hyok Chol, as part of a
purge of officials who steered negotiations for the collapsed summit in February.
Officials who worked with Kim Yong Chol have been out of the public eye since the summit, while seasoned diplomats who appeared to have been sidelined, including Vice Foreign
Minister Choe Son Hui, were seen returning to the spotlight.
South Korean news should be taken with a pinch of salt, they've reported on greatly exaggerated executions or missing high profile officials which turned out to be false. Most of their info are either made up to push readership, or sources from inside who could be either telling bullshit or anybody.
How trust worthy is either side when it comes to news? Why is NK news more trust worthy vs SK? I thought NK only had propaganda news outlets is this not the case anymore?
I have a lot of questions but this is because I find NK fascinating but also quite frightening.
They're both attempting to push their own agenda, hence why their respective reports often clash with each-other
Where did I say NK news is more trustworthy?
Because South Korea is a democratic nation, we're all obviously going to trust them, over the rubbish that NK reports.
That isn't to say that South Korean media likes to push a certain agenda.
NK is perfectly trustworthy and very reasonable, it is not at all propaganda, that is just what the southern pigs want you to think!
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Schrödinger's envoy. Both dead and alive until observed by state media.
Its all a mistranslation guys, he underwent surgery to have a hole put into his head, totally easy to confuse for having a hole shot through his head. He's much better and more loyal now.
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