{"id":48597,"date":"2021-06-01T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48597"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:51:40","slug":"seventh-general-bureau-official-publicly-executed-engaging-corrupt-construction-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/seventh-general-bureau-official-publicly-executed-engaging-corrupt-construction-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh General Bureau official publicly executed for engaging in &#8220;corrupt construction practices&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK learned Monday that a member of the political committee of the North Korean military\u2019s Seventh General Bureau was publicly executed in mid-May for engaging in corrupt construction practices. The Seventh General Bureau handles national construction projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Pyongyang, a 52-year-old major general on the Seventh General Bureau\u2019s political committee by the name of Ryu was publicly executed on the riverbank of the market area of Pyongyang\u2019s Hyongjesan District at 10 AM on May 15. The execution was carried out in front of about 3,000 people, including the bureau\u2019s cadres, the families of soldiers, and the troops mobilized to build homes for 10,000 families in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receiving upfront investment from members of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">donju <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(North Korea\u2019s wealthy entrepreneurial class) over many years, Ryu reportedly enriched himself by running construction projects where people would invest in an apartment construction project first before being given the opportunity to buy an apartment later. However, he met his end by firing squad after his mistress informed the authorities about his activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of new apartment construction in Pyongyang, North Korean authorities have simply instructed military engineering units about how many people need to live in the buildings; they have left the rest up to military commanders. This lack of clarity has created an opportunity for military construction managers, commanders, and party officials to make money by creating more family units than originally planned through \u201cunauthorized\u201d changes to the internal structure of the apartments, according to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryu, for his part, filled his pockets by colluding with members of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">donju <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with whom he shared school and personal ties to build apartments after receiving from them investment and promises of apartment sales after the buildings were fully constructed. He apparently used the money he earned to take on several mistresses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRyu had several mistresses, so many in fact that he got a separate place in Mangyongdae District\u2019s Chukjeon-dong to meet them,\u201d said the source. \u201cWhile he was with a woman in her late 20s, another mistress in her mid-30s stopped by and discovered their relationship. Outraged, the woman in her 30s filed a complaint against Ryu with Reception Office Two of the Central Committee\u2019s Petition Processing Department.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42297\" style=\"width: 956px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing.jpg\" alt=\"Pyongyang Housing real estate prices\" width=\"956\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing.jpg 956w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing-696x437.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Pyongyang-Housing-669x420.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings in Pyongyang. \/ Image: Todd Mecklem, Creative Commons, Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman who filed the complaint is reportedly a major investor in the Supreme Guard Command\u2019s Dongyang Tobacco Company and is from a good family that has produced cadres for the Supreme Guard Command over the years. She had declined marriage proposals while with Ryu and felt betrayed upon learning he had other paramours. This seems to be why she resolved to report Ryu\u2019s corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman reportedly submitted a recorded conversation she had with Ryu to the Central Committee in which she complained she had yet to receive an apartment despite investing money and providing nighttime meals and snacks to the construction soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Committee\u2019s Discipline Inspection Department soon opened an investigation, calling the matter a \u201cserious problem\u201d of pursuing self-interest by going against the \u201cSupreme Leader\u2019s ideology of architectural aesthetics and the party\u2019s policy of architectural politics.\u201d Though military prosecutors could have handled the case, Ryu was arrested instead by the Discipline Inspection Department because he was a political official of the military\u2019s party apparatus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the Discipline Inspection Department said the \u201csatisfaction of self-interest\u201d by a construction official \u201cat the lead of the Supreme Leader\u2019s politics of love\u201d through abuse of his power \u201cwith no sense of duty or self-consciousness\u201d represented a problem in his ideology. Accordingly, the department publicly tried and executed Ryu to make an example of him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Pyongyang, however, conspiracy theories are emerging following Ryu\u2019s sudden execution so soon after his arrest, with whispers that he was quickly shot because he was connected to many party cadres and that many stood to lose if he opened his mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, through the recording submitted by Ryu\u2019s former mistress, the Discipline Inspection Department learned of corruption by commanders of construction units such as the Seventh General Bureau and Eighth General Bureau. According to the source, about 10 implicated persons were swept up and confined by the Military Security Command.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWithin the Party, they are saying that they will carry out a broad shakeup of cadres within the military\u2019s party apparatus in the wake of the incident,\u201d said the source. \u201cIt seems the Justice Department of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea, the Military Security Command, and military prosecutors will also begin the work of digging up corruption by military cadres.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20210531\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK learned Monday that a member of the political committee of the North Korean military\u2019s Seventh General Bureau was publicly executed in mid-May for engaging in corrupt construction practices. 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