Kim Yong-jin | |
Native Name: | 김용진 |
Office: | Vice Premier of North Korea |
Convocation: | 13th term |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Kim Jong-un |
2Blankname: | Premier |
2Namedata: | Pak Pong-ju Choe Yong-rim |
Term Start: | 9 April 2014 |
Term End: | July 2016 |
Death Date: | July 2016 Pyongyang, North Korea |
Death Cause: | Execution |
Party: | Workers' Party of Korea |
Kim Yong-jin (; 23 February 1953 – July 2016) was a senior North Korean official. Kim served as North Korea’s education minister, and in 2012 was made a vice-premier.
In August 2016, it was reported that he had been executed by firing squad for allegedly displaying a bad attitude at a national meeting[1] and failing to stand upright.[2] Kim was subsequently branded an "anti-party and a counter-revolutionary member" by North Korea’s State Security. The information was confirmed by South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman, Jeong Joon Hee.