North Korean official was executed due to complaints and slow work. This is reported by the Daily NK edition.
Official by the name Pak was appointed Chairman of the Special Commission, designed to establish distance learning in North Korea. However, due to the lack of necessary resources and equipment, the case almost did not move from the dead point. Paka such a situation did not suit what he was not hesitated to speak regularly to other members of the Commission. According to one of them, the chairman of the University named after Kim Il Seni Ri Giuk Chol was a denominant for an official.
Paka executed in March on charges of “anti-party and anti-remuneration activities in the field of education.” Another 20 professors who were in the Commission now pass “ideological checks”. The structure was reorganized: now there are 180 members and three subcommittees. The new commission was headed by Ri Giuk Chol.
The death penalty is not uncommon in North Korea. Thus, on February 16, it became known that the authorities tightened the punishment for the importation and distribution of South Korean video materials – now for it may threaten the death penalty. The maximum prison term for viewing video from South Korea was also increased.