Kim Jong Un executes staff from failed Hanoi summit as US spies – Washington Examiner

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been purging the officials that took part in the Hanoi summit in January. The summit abruptly finished early with no agreement between North Korea and the United States.

Blaming the officials for the failed summit, North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, the special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out the working-level negotiations for the meeting in February, according to Reuters.

The regime accused them of spying for the United States.

Kim Yong Chol, who was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s counterpart for the meeting, was sent to a labor camp. Shin Hye Yong, the interpreter for Kim Jong Un, was also sent to a camp for political prisoners for undermining the North Korean leader.

The news comes after Trump repeated criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden from Kim Jong Un while visiting Japan during the Memorial Day weekend.

“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal,” he tweeted.

He later tweeted he was standing up for “Sleepy Joe Biden.”

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