A North Korean defense minister is executed with anti-aircraft fire for falling asleep in a meeting (or was it a parade)? If you don’t find that hard to believe, you probably buy everything you see advertised on TV.
Even so, news media throughout the world repeated this story about the alleged demise of General Hyon Yong Chol, based on an anonymous report from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.
Although the NIS later backtracked, saying Hyon had been “purged” but not necessarily executed, much less in such a gruesome manner, more such stories will circulate and find an eager audience — and not …read more
Source: iPolitics
