North Korea’s Kim Reportedly Had Senior Official Executed for Bad Posture

North Korea’s Minister of Education has reportedly been executed by firing squad for “not sitting properly” in parliament.

Kim Yong-jin, 63, was executed in July after dictator Kim Jong-un became infuriated by his posture and perceived “bad attitude” on June 29, a South Korean official said.

An interrogation prior to the man’s death lead officials to declare that he was an "anti-revolutionary agitator.”

"Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed," unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told South Korea’s JoongAng Daily.  “Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum,” he added.

"He was later accused of being anti-revolutionary following a probe and a firing squad execution was carried out in July," he told the newspaper.

Two other officials were sent to camps for "ideological re-education.”

Earlier this week it was reported that Hwang Min, the former agricultural minister, and Ri Yong-jin, a senior official in the education ministry, were also executed at a military academy in Pyongyang using an anti-aircraft gun.

Ri Yong-jin was reportedly executed for dozing off during a meeting with Jong-un. He is at least the second person to meet this fate after falling asleep in the presence of the 32-year-old Jong-un.

In April of 2015, North Korea’s former defense chief Hyon Yong-chol was executed by firing squad for the offense of falling asleep during a meeting attended by the DPRK supreme leader.