the North Korean regime executed at least five of government

the North Korean regime executed at least five of government officials and cadres of the Communist Party in the military base at Seoncheon County, North Pyongan Province. A sixth officer committed suicide, in fear of being killed like his colleagues in the purges ordered by the dictatorship. According to the Daily North Korean (site that deals with the situation inside the Kim Jong-il regime), the events took place in the village of Unjong on the island of Shinmi, Seoncheon county, about 70 km south-east of Shinuiju. Elements within the regime met "the cadres of the provincial Party and officials in the area of trade" in the county seat of Seoncheon, to report the results of inspections carried out in previous weeks. In response to allegations of corruption and malfeasance, officials ordered the execution of the head of the unit, his deputy (a woman of 39), a ship’s captain, the Party official in charge of food distribution and the head of the agricultural cooperative in the village of Unjong. The five were executed with 60 bullets "at the army barracks shooting range" in Seoncheon County. In particular, the ship’s captain was sentenced to death on suspicion of having stolen 60 thousand dollars deposited in a bank in China. Local sources also added that the local official in charge of Justice also committed suicide for fear of being executed, to which must be added, "the expulsion of the local manager for the National Security Agency (NSA) and ten party cadres.” The peculiarity of this "purge" of the regime, the sources conclude, is that investigations and death sentences were reportedly performed by a team of "inspectors" from the province of North Hamkyung (who carried out the job with "coldness and detachment"), and not from the capital Pyongyang.