North Korea executed its former top nuclear envoy to the U.S. and four other foreign ministry officials in March after a failed summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported.
Bloomberg: North Korea executed envoy over Trump-Kim summit
(FILES) This file photo taken on Feb. 19, 2019 shows a man believed to be North Korean negotiator Kim Hyok Chol (centre L-blue tie) after arriving on an Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang, at Beijing international airport. North Korea executed its special envoy to the United States, Kim Hyok Chol, following the collapse of the second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper reported on May 31, 2019.
