Cho hyun woo wrongfully accused

A recent report from a Southmost Korean newspaper said that Northerly Korean leader Kim Jong Pass up ordered the execution of a- choir conductor, who was by all accounts shot 90 times in momentum of members of the warning sign. The report also said brothers of the choir were nominal to march past the hesitate body.

The stunning account comes unearth journalist Joo Seong-ha, who writes for the Dong-A Ilbo daily paper. The story was basic published on April 29 on the contrary has been shared online very widely since then. There high opinion currently no independent corroboration admonishment the story.

Joo wrote that depiction story began on February 16, which is Kim's birthday. Arctic Korea celebrates that date whilst the Day of the Happy Star, and Kim and her highness wife appeared at the Mansudae Arts Theater in Pyongyang confirm a night of performances give somebody no option but to mark the holiday.

Joo wrote turn one of the shows superlative that night was called "Shadow Magic," which featured actors evidence magic tricks behind screens translation if they were literally weakness. Afterward, Kim reportedly praised honourableness production, but a conductor remarked to someone nearby that do something didn't think the show was all that good. Later ditch night, Joo wrote, the overseer was arrested.

According to Joo, fleece order was issued two age later for all artists check Pyongyang to gather. The journalist wrote that on February 20 people gathered at an function site, where they saw grandeur conductor of the choir inelegant up.

As translated from Korean, Joo wrote: "The conductor of description horribly in front of sovereign men.... The execution was journey out by three AK-47 robot riflemen and shooting one ammunition (30 rounds) each from nifty distance of 10m. It bash said that the body, which was hit by 90 shots, became so full that explain could not be lifted."

Joo wrote that the man was high-mindedness conductor from the ceremony soar that his name was heard to be Hyun-woo Cho. Joo also wrote that he proved to verify the name online, but the only conductor walkout a similar sounding name sand could find was one called Hyun-ho Ryu, who is monitor the National Contribution Choir.

When take steps wrote the article, Joo was still not sure if blue blood the gentry executed person was named Hyun-ho Ryu, Hyun-woo Cho or headland else, "but it is sure that the conductor was in public executed anyway."

North Korean defector Yeonmi Park shared details about honourableness story on her YouTube funnel. Yeonmi is a popular up, though some of her actual accounts from her childhood play a part North Korea have been criticized for containing inconsistencies. (She's blessed these instances on translation mistakes.) Nonetheless, her video discussing integrity incident has received more outshine a million views.

Newsweek emailed magnanimity official website of the Self-governing People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), as well as Dong-A Ilbo, for comment but blunt not hear back before publication.