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May 31, 2019

North Korea Executes Special Envoy to the U.S. After Failed Trump Summit
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North Korea has reportedly executed its special envoy to the United
States, after President Trump walked away from a summit with North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un in February without a deal on
denuclearization. A major South Korean newspaper reports the envoy, Kim
Hyok-chol, was shot to death by a firing squad in March at an airfield
outside of Pyongyang along with four other North Korean Foreign Ministry
officials, and that a translator at the summit was sent to a forced
labor camp for committing a translation mistake. This comes as Kim's
sister is said to be "lying low" on her brother's orders in the wake of
the summit's collapse. She hasn't been seen in public since.


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