[imText1]Dandong, China — An internal source relayed on the December 30th that the managing chairman and the primary party secretary of a collective farm at Mundeok, South Pyongan Province were publicly executed on the 5th of last month for the crime of embezzling national funds.
The source said, “The public execution was carried out while 10,000-some citizens watched at a public stadium located in Mundeok. Family members of the accused were taken to political prison camps.”
The managing chairman and the primary party secretary had had personal meetings with Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the managing chairman even received the title of “Hardworking Hero.” He earned the confidence of the party through his previous actions.
According to the source, the accused hid several tons of food allotted for the army and aid (rice offered by the citizens to the People’s Army) in a farm truck and then sold these goods in the markets of another city where residents were suffering from a serious food shortage.
Mundeok in South Pyongan Province, along with Sukcheun, are major grain producing regions in North Korea. Kim Il Sung visited these areas several times and encouraged the people to increase food production. When the Secretary of the Agricultural Department, Suh Gwan Hee was executed for committing espionage in 1997, the managing chairman in charge of the collective farm at Sukcheun was executed for the same reason.
Further, the managing chairman and the primary secretary, by falsely stating the number of households in the collective, were able to illegally hoard several dozen pigs. North Korea, since 1998, forced each household to donate 70 kilograms worth of pigs every year to resolve meat shortages in the People’s Army.
Suspicions were raised when the managing chairman built a new house last summer. The managing chairman even went so far as to force farmers working at the collective farm to build the new house during the busy farming season.
Another source said, “The house was quite extravagant with a total of 7 doors, which were all Chinese-made steel doors. It was revealed through the trial that the doors cost $100 apiece.
Also, several young women were falsely diagnosed as long-term patients making them exempt from doing agricultural duties. Instead, they were directed to do the managing chairman’s housework. With such brazen illegal acts increasing daily, the managing chairman drew attention from his superiors.
While searching the home of the primary party secretary, 3 kilogram lumps of gold and a bundle of dollars were discovered.
The source said, “Nowadays, there are a lot of leaders who are executed or end up going to prison. If the managing chairman was that corrupt, imagine how the people above him must be?”
The North Korean authorities executed Park Gi Dok for the crime of exporting equipment from the Suncheon Vinylon Complex in South Pyongan Province and executed a person in charge of earning foreign-currency in Yeonsa, North Hamkyung Province in August of last year.
