Former North Korean foreign minister Lee Yong-ho and five other North Korean diplomats could be executed in 2022. This was reported today, January 4, by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, citing “informed sources” in Pyongyang.
According to the publication, this is how the North Korean authorities want to rule out the possibility of individual diplomats fleeing North Korea.
According to the newspaper’s interlocutors, former employees of the country’s Foreign Ministry were allegedly executed in the summer or autumn of last year.
From 2003 to 2007, Lee Yong-ho served as the North Korean ambassador to the United Kingdom. According to news sources, other executed diplomats worked with Yong-ho at the British embassy.
South Korean authorities told local news agency Yonhap that they would check information about the executions through their own channels.
Lee Yong Ho headed the DPRK’s foreign ministry from 2016 to 2020. In 2011, he represented North Korea in six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program. The diplomat also participated in consultations with the United States during his presidency. Donald Trump.
