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 SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Yonhap) -- The chief of North Korea's military was executed this month on corruption and other charges, sources familiar with North Korean affairs said Wednesday. 
 
 Army Gen. Ri Yong-gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, also faced charges of pursuing personal gains, the sources said. 
 
 According to one source, Ri was executed last week around the time North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a joint meeting of the North's ruling Workers' Party and the military. 
 
 Ri, who was appointed to the post in 2013, had won Kim's favor and accompanied him on various inspection trips to military exercises and the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the equivalent of the South's Defense Ministry, until last month. 
 
 However, he was absent from the joint meeting of the party and the military as well as from events in Pyongyang that celebrated the successful launch of a satellite on Sunday. 
 
 In listing the leaders present at the celebrations, the North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper did not mention Ri and instead listed Gen. Ri Myong-su in his place. 
 
 Ri Myong-su, a former minister of people's security, may have replaced Ri Yong-gil as chief of the General Staff, said one source. 
 
 "Ri Yong-gil is known to have been faithful to principles, so it appears the North cited (the charges) to justify his execution," the source said. 
 
 The source also raised the possibility that Ri may have raised objections to Kim's recent appointment of party leaders to key military posts. 
 
 Otherwise, there could have been a plot to remove Ri among those within the party's leadership, the source added. 
 
 If confirmed, Ri's removal comes less than a year after Kim executed his defense minister. 
 
 "This shows that Kim Jong-un is very nervous about the armed forces," the source said. "It also shows his reign of terror continues." 
 
 
 
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 A top North Korean military officer was executed earlier this month on charges of pursuing personal interests and engaging in corruption, a source said Wednesday.The source said that the execution of Ri Yong-gil, the chief of the General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army, occurred around the time a senior-level meeting involving officials from the military and the ruling Workers’ Party was convened from Feb. 2-3.The execution came as a surprise, as Ri had been regarded as one of the most prominent figures in the Kim coterie. In 2013, Ri was appointed as the general staff chief equivalent to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. The next year, he become a candidate member of the party’s powerful politburo.The source offered several potential reasons for his execution.“Recently, North Korean leader Kim appointed party officials for senior military posts. For this, Ri, a longtime active-duty field officer, might have expressed his displeasure,” the source told reporters.“There is also a possibility that those who lead party control over the military might have reported Ri’s (concocted) blasphemous activities to the authorities so as to eliminate him.”The sources also noted that the continued executions of top military officers signaled that Kim was apprehensive about maintaining firm control over the North’s military.Since Kim took power in December 2011, a series of top military officers were purged or executed. In July 2012, Ri Yong-ho, then chief of the general staff of the North’s military, was purged. Ri was then replaced by Hyon Yong-chol, who was executed in April 2015.Rumors have persisted that there could be some power struggle between military and party officials as Kim has been trying to strengthen the role of the party as part of efforts to institutionalize his dictatorship. Under the rule of his late father Kim Jong-il, the party’s role to support the leader was rather loose, as he wielded enormous charismatic authority.Speculation about Ri’s oust had already been circulating as he had not appeared at recent high-profile military events including a Pyongyang ceremony marking what the reclusive regime claims to be a successful launch of the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite.Reporting on the ceremony for the satellite launch, the Rodong Sinmun, the daily of the ruling party, enumerated participants in the order of their military and party rankings. Ri Myong-su, an general of the North’s Korean People’s Army, took the place of the executed Ri, sparking speculation that he might have been newly appointed for the general staff chief post.By Song Sang-ho ( sshluck@heraldcorp.com
– Kim Jong Un has executed another top military official, sources say. Army Gen. Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, was reportedly executed last week after being found guilty of pursuing personal gains and corruption. Appointed military chief in 2013, Ri was spotted in public alongside Kim at inspections of military exercises until last month, sources tell South Korea's Yonhap News. However, he wasn't present at a joint meeting of the Workers' Party and the military from Feb. 2-3, nor has he been seen at celebrations in honor of Sunday's rocket launch. A source speculates that Ri may have disapproved of recent military appointments, per the Korea Herald. Gen. Ri Myong Su, a former minister of people's security, may have taken over his post. "This shows that Kim Jong Un is very nervous about the armed forces," the source says. But an expert tells Bloomberg there are two ways to view the purge: "One argument is that even after nearly five years in power, Kim is still weak, and is wiping out his lieutenants to try and keep a grip. The other argument is that he's strong and is in full control of the army. He can do exactly what he wants with the army and this is a typical move to wipe out the old guard."