O Sang-hon

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 오상헌
Hancha 吳 相 憲
Revised
Romanization
O Sang-heon
McCune-
Reischauer
O Sanghŏn

O Sang-hon († 2014 ) was a North Korean politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Labor Party of Korea and deputy minister for public security. He worked closely with Jang Song-thaek , who was executed in December . As part of a wave of arrests carried out by Kim Jong-un , he and Jang's older sister Jang Kye-sun and her husband, the ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-jin , were sentenced to the death penalty in 2014 . According to unconfirmed information from the Chosun Ilbo newspaper , he was executed with a flame thrower .

Individual evidence

  1. N. Korea Shuts Down Jang Song-taek's Department . Chosun Ilbo , April 7, 2014.
  2. Cruel dictator in North Korea: Kim has ministers executed with flame throwers . Focus online, April 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Julian Ryall: North Korean official 'executed by flame-thrower . The Daily Telegraph, April 7, 2014.