SEOUL: North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has sacked his spy chief for abuse of power and executed several officials of the state security agency, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Friday.

Minister of state security Kim Won-Hong was dismissed in mid-January after the agency came under scrutiny for abuse of power and corruption, Seoul ministry's spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee said.

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