SEOUL: Doubts surfaced Thursday over the reported execution of North Korea's defense chief as South Korea's spy agency clarified that it had been unable to verify he had been put to death.
Briefing a select parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the National Intelligence Service said Defence Minister Hyon Yong-Chol had been purged, and cited intelligence suggesting he may have been executed on April 30 using an anti-aircraft gun.
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