A co-operative farm chief once honoured by North Korea's founding president

A co-operative farm chief once honoured by North Korea's founding president as a labour hero was publicly executed for “starting a private farm”.
The episode was reported by the South Korean humanitarian group, Good Friends. The unidentified man and two colleagues were shot by firing squad in Pyongsong, north of Pyongyang.
According to the group the condemned were executed by 90 bullets and that now their families have been interned in a concentration camp. They are guilty of having privately sold products in order to maintain their “luxurious” lifestyle.  
The association reports that the president of the co-op had been honoured as a labour hero.  
Then president Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, had several times praised the farm chief and once gave him a watch engraved with his autograph. The farm chief was accused of failing to register 79 hectares of farmland that had been cultivated over the past decade.  He allegedly fed retired soldiers with the produce and used them as his private bodyguards. 
Given his honourable career, he was charged with "betraying the guidance" of the late president, Good Friends said, adding that executions of "labour heroes" were rare. Following the executions, Good Friends said each province summoned co-operative farm chiefs and local party secretaries and warned them of harsh punishment for diverting produce.