SEOUL: North Korea has purged its vice foreign minister Kung Sok-Ung as punishment for the recent defection of the nuclear-armed country’s deputy ambassador to Britain, South Korean media reported Wednesday.
The mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo, quoting an anonymous source familiar with North Korean affairs, said that Kung had been removed from his post and expelled from Pyongyang to a rural farming area with his family.
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