Vasily Golovnin: "DPRK after execution"

“The father of the young ruler, who died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il, did not like public trials. However, in 1997, he executed the Secretary of the Central Committee for Agriculture, holding him responsible for the massive famine in the country, as a result of which, according to an estimated million people died. The purges and executions in this case continued, according to some sources, until 2000. In 2010, the head of the financial department of the Central Committee was shot - he was accused of failing the monetary reform that caused chaos in the country.

However, the current public trial and execution are a different matter. For the first time, a member of the ruling family, although not a blood relative of the current leader, has been declared a hidden enemy of the people."