Kim Jong-un’s practice of holding his officials strictly accountable might set a useful precedent for President Trump, especially in light of the way in which so many employees in the State Department, CIA and FBI have been behaving since his election:
Kim Jong-un has executed his envoy to the U.S. for ‘betraying the supreme leader’ as part of ruthless purge of officials after the dictator’s failed summit with Donald Trump, it has been claimed.
Kim Hyok Chol is said to have been shot by a firing squad in March at Mirim Airport for being ‘won over to the US,’ during nuclear negotiations with Trump.
The top diplomat, who accompanied Kim on his private train ahead of the summit in Vietnam, was one of four senior foreign ministry officials executed at the airfield, a source told South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. The other officials were not named, but all allegedly became U.S. ‘spies’ after the failed second negotiations between Trump and Kim Jong-un ended abruptly in February.
What do you think the odds are that Kim Hyok Chol was actually less loyal to the North Korean government than most of the State Department has been to the US government? This is portrayed as lawlessness on the part of North Korea, and no doubt it is, but in truth, the USA is more lawless and its government officials are less accountable to the people than many other countries these days.