In failure of the summit with Trump, Kim Jong Un made a radical decision

North Korea he executed his special envoy for United States After the failure of the second summit in Hanoi last February between the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the American president Donald Trump , according to a South Korean newspaper published today.

Chosun Ilbo says that Kim Hyok Chol, who had done preparatory work before the summit and went to the Vietnamese capital aboard Kim Jong-un's private train, was shot dead. for "betraying the supreme leader" after having "sided with the United States" before the meeting.

Kim Hyok Chol was the counterpart of US envoy Stephen Biegun during the preparatory talks for the Hanoi summit.

According to newspaper sources ChosunKim Jong-un would also have decided purge of other senior plan officials involved in the negotiations with the United States.

"Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim airport with four senior officials of the Foreign Ministry following an investigation," an unnamed source was quoted as saying. The publication did not give the names of the other people executed.

According to the newspaper, Kim would have also temporarily separated from his duties towards his sister and a close badociate in her meetings with Trump and other foreign leaders, Kim Yo-jong.

The Ministry of South Korean Unification, which deals with inter-Korean affairs, declined to comment on Chosun Ilbo's article.

The newspaper also publishes that Kim's interpreter, Shin Hye Yong, was sent to a prison camp because of an error at the summit.

He did not translate Kim Jong-un's new proposal when Donald Trump said he had not "agreed" and left the table., according to Chosun Ilbo, who quotes a diplomatic source.

Abrupt end

Trump and Kim shorten summit in Hanoi without agreement and joint declaration because of its inability to reach an agreement on the dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear programs in exchange for lifting sanctions.

Since then, the North has increased the pressure with two short-range missile tests.

Kim Yong Chol, leader of the ruling party and North Korean counterpart of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in talks on the nuclear issue, was also sent to a labor camp, according to the newspaper.

Information on this alleged purge is published when Rodong Sinmun, the official organ of the ruling party in North Korea, warned Thursday that those responsible for acts hostile to the party or anti-revolutionaries would be liable to " severe judgment of the revolution ".

In April, the South Korean Intelligence Committee said that Kim Yong Chol had been sanctioned for his management of the Hanoi summit, although he was recently appointed to the State Affairs Commission, the first state body chaired by Kim Jong-a.

At times, reports in the South Korean press about purges and executions in the north have proved to be false.

Information on this alleged purge is published when Rodong Sinmun, the official organ of the ruling party in North Korea, warned Thursday that anti-party or anti-revolutionary party perpetrators would face "Severe judgment of the revolution".