The DPRK Defense Minister was shot from anti-aircraft guns for sleeping at a meeting. Officials executed in the DPRK fell asleep in the wrong place

Name: Jung Yong Hwa / Jeong Yong Hwa / 정용화
Occupation: singer, musician, actor
Height: 180 cm
Date of birth: June 22, 1989
Place of birth: Seoul, South Korea
Family: parents and older brother

Series

• Three Musketeers | The Three Musketeers (2014) the main role, Park Dal Hyang
• Choosing your future / Marry him if you dare | Marry Him If You Dare / Future Choice (2013) Main role, Park Se Joo
• The dignity of a gentleman | Gentleman's Dignity (2012) Episodic role in the thirteenth episode, Jung Yong Hwa
• Heartstrings / Now you are mine | Heartstrings / You’ve Fallen for Me (2011) Main role, Lee Shin
• You are beautiful! | He's Beautiful! (2009) Main role, Kang Shin Woo

Jung Yong Hwa is a world-famous musician and actor from South Korea. This talented young man hundreds of thousands of fans in all corners globe. Girls like his good looks and charisma, men appreciate him as a gifted musician. How is his life path going?

Biography

Jung Yong Hwa was born on June 22, 1989 in the capital of South Korea, Seoul. He became the second child in the family. Four years earlier at my parents' future star first son was born.

In 1991, he moved with his family to Busan, where he graduated from high school.

At the age of 13, he began to take an active interest in music.

In 2005, he returned to Seoul, where he entered Kyung Hee University. Jong Yong Hwa studied guitar, clarinet and piano, and wrote songs. That same year I met some guys who played in a music group. In the future the group will be called CNBlue. Jung Yong Hwa and his new friends went to Japan, where they staged street concerts. Often these performances ended in arrest and fines.

On big stage debuted in 2008 in Japan.

The group CNBlue released its first album on August 19, 2009, which included songs most of which Jung Yong Hwa wrote.

In October 2009, it was released on big screens. korean series"You are beautiful". This film showed that Jung Yong Hwa is not only talented musician, but also a charismatic actor.

In November 2009, the group's second album, entitled “Voice,” was released, which sold millions of copies.

On December 6, 2009, the world premiere of a TV show about hunting for wild boars. One of the participants in the program was Jung Yong Hwa. The project was closed after a few months due to mass protests from animal rights activists.

At the end of December 2009, Jung Yong Hwa began his career as a TV presenter. Together with actress Lee In Hye, he hosted the first music awards ceremony for young performers, the Melon Music Awards.

Add to list famous shows, where Jung Yong Hwa acted as the host, the “SBS Gayo Daejun” ceremony is also included.

In February 2010, Jung Yong Hwa took part in the acclaimed TV show “We Got Married.” His on-screen wife and partner was Seo Ju-hyun (Sohyun), a model and member of the group “Girls’ Generation”. The program became so popular in Asian countries that the actors were credited real romance. A lot of news has appeared online regarding the secret marriage of Jung Yong Hwa and Seo Joo Hyun. "We Got Married" finished filming in March 2011.

In May 2010, Chong Yong Hwa was urgently hospitalized in a Japanese hospital. The actor and musician was diagnosed with acute inflammation of the vocal cords. Doctors even planned to perform an operation, but such radical measures were not needed.

In July 2010, Jung Yong Hwa began working for Inkigayo, a popular South Korean music show. However, due to being very busy, he was forced to leave the television project in 2011.

At the same time he was filming entertainment show"Running Man".

Continues to gain momentum and its actor career. In June 2011, a melodrama about friendship, dreams and love called “Soulstrings” was released on big screens. The main characters in the film were played by Jung Yong Hwa and Park Shin Hye.

It should also be noted documentary"The Story of CNBlue: Never Stop." The film premiered at the beginning of 2014. The film tells in detail about the first steps of the band members on the big stage.

In September 2014, he held his first meeting with his fans in Japan. The event was called “Tender Melody” and brought together fans of Chung En Hwa’s work not only from the Land of the Rising Sun.

Curious facts

• He received the nickname "Milk Boy" due to numerous photographs at ski resorts.
• He plays basketball well and snowboards.
• Jung Yong Hwa has both ears pierced.
• Loves tigers.
• Masters it thoroughly Korean. Speaks Japanese and English quite well. Has basic knowledge of Spanish and Chinese.
• Loves blue, black and gold colors.
• He is friends with actor Lee Hong Ki, rapper Yang Dong Jin, and actress and model Park Shin Hye.
• Likes to watch The Simpsons and the series Game of Thrones.
• Favorite drink is coffee. Not a single morning of Jung Yong Hwa is complete without him.
• A special character trait is shyness. Has a habit of covering his mouth with his hand when he is embarrassed.
• Favorite dishes are samgyepsal (grilled pork) and miso soup.
• Considers himself an optimist. Life motto: “The power of positivity.”
• As a child, his parents affectionately called him “Yong-yong.”
• He plans to study music all his life.
• Hates cockroaches and bees.
• While studying at high school took part in the work of the youth Red Cross.
• Dreams of buying the latest model of the Virus Ti synthesizer.
• His favorite dog, Yong Yi, is waiting for him at home.
• Jung Yong Hwa believes that there is no need to rush into marriage. He dreams of a girl who will support him in everything. Wants to have two children who will not only good father, but also a true friend.
• From alcoholic drinks prefers a glass of good beer.
• Jung Yong Hwa does not have a driver's license yet.
• Dreams of going alone to the sea.
• Constantly improves his musical equipment.
• Doesn't leave home without a music player.
• Likes to watch thrillers.
• Does not have a specific style of clothing. Loves comfortable, practical things from fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy.
• If you won a million dollars in the lottery, the money would be used to build a modern recording studio.
• Wears perfume from Marc Jacobs.

South Korean intelligence has released data on new repressions in the DPRK. The country's Defense Minister Hyun Yong Chol allegedly became a victim of the regime. His fatal offense was sleeping at one of the military events. The official was sentenced to capital punishment and has already been carried out. However, this is not the first time a high-ranking civil servant has been executed in North Korea.

The fact that the dream at the parade of the Minister of Defense of the DPRK eventually became eternal, South Korean intelligence officers reported. It is not known for certain where they received such data and whether they received it at all. But representatives of the intelligence services claim that the minister was shot in front of hundreds of officials with an anti-aircraft machine gun because he dozed off at a military event in the presence of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Kim Jong-un. In total, this year alone, South Korean sources have counted 15 executions of high-ranking North Korean civil servants. True, not all reports were confirmed, reports.

"This case, the alleged shooting of the North Korean defense minister is similar to a South Korean intelligence hoax. Experts believe that there really are problems and most likely this Minister of Defense has been taken into custody. Naturally, there is no smoke without fire,” explained the acting director of the institute Far East RAS, doctor historical sciences Sergey Luzyanin.

If you believe numerous reports from Seoul, the North Korean leader is equally merciless to both strangers and his own. He is credited with the execution of his uncle, as well as all his relatives, including small children. The South Korean agency then wrote that soldiers carrying out orders killed people right in their homes in front of their neighbors.

Kim Jong-un's uncle was North Korea's second-in-command. He was accused of attempting a coup, corruption, dissolute behavior and drug use. And the very next day they shot me. Again, news of this came from South Korea. As well as the information that the young leader of the DPRK simply wanted to get rid of the gray eminence from his father’s team in this way.

Then the fact of execution of the death sentence North Korea confirmed. But the DPRK categorically denies the murder of Kim Jong-un’s aunt, whom he allegedly ordered to poison. Information about her fate was announced by one of the defectors to the South Korean side. According to him, the relative fell out of favor because she began to openly oppose the policies of the new leader of the country. The most varied versions of her death have been put forward - either a heart attack after phone call nephew, then suicide after the shooting of her husband. Some journalists later described cases of miraculous resurrection and found the woman alive in one of the European hospitals.

The dictator was also accused of mass execution of an entire music group- ten performers. Kim Jong-un allegedly did not spare his former mistress. She was publicly shot along with the musicians, accused of violating the law against pornography and political dissidence. Some members of the group were found to have a Bible banned in North Korea.

The UN even raised the issue of holding Kim Jong-un accountable for crimes against humanity. Western experts predict his imminent loss of power due to excessive cruelty and incompetence in politics. According to some forecasts, senior officials and military officials could remove their leader in the next three years. North Korea denies all accusations of mass torture and executions and considers them part of a US plan to discredit political system countries.

Details of another high-profile execution in a northern neighbor were reported by Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service (NRS) of South Korea Han Ki-beom during a closed briefing for members of the parliamentary intelligence committee. The contents of the briefing were “leaked” to journalists by MPs Lee Chul Woo and Shin Kyung Min, reports the local Yonhap news agency.

66-year-old North Korean Defense Minister Hyun Yong Chol was allegedly executed on April 30 at a shooting range at a military school in the Sunhwa area of ​​Pyongyang. Presumably, he was shot from anti-aircraft machine guns in the presence of several hundred people. According to intelligence data, the minister was arrested on April 28 after a women's concert pop group"Moranbon." The official was shot “without trial or investigation,” they write in South Korea.

Officially, the death sentence was imposed for treason, although South Korean intelligence claims that he simply fell asleep at a meeting with the country's leader Kim Jong-un.

According to South Korean data, he allowed himself to argue with Kim and did not follow some of his instructions. Disobedience to the dictator led to execution.

Defense Minister Hyun Yong Chol is one of the key figures in the country's leadership and the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army in July 2012. In his post, he replaced the previous vice-marshal Lee Yong-ho, who was close to Kim Jong-un, whom the dictator deprived of all posts in the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea and dismissed “for health reasons.”

Hyun Yong Chol has made significant progress in career ladder last June, when he was appointed head of the DPRK State Defense Committee. In this post, he replaced General Chan Chong Nam, whose fate after his resignation is still unknown. At the time of his execution, the minister was the second person in the country's military hierarchy after the head of the main political department (GPU) of the armed forces.

As The Wall Street Journal notes, Hyun Yong Chol's fall occurred just a month after he took part in the Moscow conference on international security(in September last year, the then head of the DPRK Ministry of Defense met with Russian President Vladimir Putin). According to Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, during his last visit to Russia, Hyun Yong Chol made an unsuccessful attempt to purchase rockets and launch equipment from Moscow.

Due to failure in this direction, the TV channel claims, Kim Jong-un decided to ignore the invitation to the ceremonial events in Moscow dedicated to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory. According to the Kremlin's official statement, the North Korean leader did not attend the May 9 Victory Parade “due to internal affairs.” South Korean observers suggested that the dictator was simply busy with internal purges.

Publications about executions and purges in the highest echelons of power in Pyongyang began to appear shortly after Kim Jong-un took the reins of power. The most high-profile execution was carried out in December 2013, when, after a public trial, he was executed for treason, anti-party factional activity and moral decay uncle of the DPRK leader Jang Song Taek, who was previously considered his mentor. According to South Korea, this year alone the leadership of their northern neighbor executed 15 officials, in 2014 - 41, while in 2013 only 10 executions were carried out.

Last year, the media wrote that Kim Jong-un personally burned his uncle’s close associate, Minister of Public Security Oh Song On, with a flamethrower after accusing him of corruption.

Jang Song Thaek's deputies were also executed or sent to labor camps. [...]

The extreme closedness of Pyongyang with the presence of a brutal dictatorship serves as the basis for the demonization of the regime and the regular appearance of the most unusual canards in the press. The BBC website reports the news about what happened to the DPRK Defense Minister, putting the word “executed” in quotation marks. The BBC report said the information from North Korea could not be verified. Information often comes from defectors who are trying to prove their importance in this way. Experts note that most often such messages are part of the propaganda war between South and North Korea. Thus, Seoul intelligence denied rumors about the execution of the leader’s aunt Kim Kyung-hee. Earlier, the American television channel CNN, citing the words of a high-ranking defector from the DPRK, stated that by order of leader Kim Kyung-hee was forced to drink poison. Kim was the wife of the executed Jang Song Thaek, the second figure in Pyongyang. “According to our information, nothing unusual happened to Kim Kyung-hee, she is alive,” the deputy director of the NRS was quoted as saying by the parliamentarian who spoke with him.

At the same time, even in the DPRK, the position of the Minister of Defense is more public: he makes foreign visits, and his absence will be proof that something happened to the minister. Back in April, Hyun Yong Chol gave a speech at a conference in Moscow that was built around propaganda cliches. He promised to respond to any challenges from the “American imperialists” and also promised to “unite even more around Comrade Kim Jong-un.” Listening to the speech of the Korean minister in the press center, one of the Russian military men said to another: “Well, the man is burning,” this phrase was heard by a Gazeta.Ru correspondent.

Officials executed in North Korea

In December 2009, former DPRK Finance Minister Moon Il Bo was executed. The official was executed for the failure of the monetary reform, which caused the crisis and the redenomination of the North Korean won.

In March 2010, the former head of the State Planning Committee of the DPRK, head of the financial department of the ruling Workers' Party, Pak Nam-gi, was shot. The authorities held him responsible for the failure of monetary reform and “deliberately undermining the economy” of North Korea.

In June 2010, the former Minister of Railways of the DPRK Kim Yong Sam was executed. The official held his post in 1998–2008 and was executed for leaking information that led to an explosion in April 2004 at one of the country's railway stations along the route of a special train of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

In December 2013, Deputy Head of the State Defense Committee Jang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was executed. The official was found guilty of attempting to seize higher authority in the party and the state, as well as the sale of national resources to foreigners at unreasonably low prices.

In April 2015, it became known that 15 high-ranking North Korean officials had been executed since the beginning of the year. North Korea's forestry minister was executed for failing to restore the country's forests. Another 14 officials were shot on charges of espionage.

How and why they are executed in North Korea

[...] With regard to judicial proceedings in North Korea, there are de facto two areas - criminal and political proceedings, which differ quite strongly from each other. Criminal proceedings follow a generally accepted model: the accused is brought before the court, and the court makes a sentence based on the Criminal Code of the DPRK. The accused may be sentenced to death on charges of terrorism (Article 61), treason (Article 63), sabotage and sabotage (Article 65), betrayal of the nation (Article 68), smuggling and drug trafficking (Article 208) or intentional murder (Article 266).

In regard to political matters, everything is different: a person can, for example, simply be sent to a camp by decision of the secret police. To some extent, this is reminiscent of Stalin’s Special Conference, which sentenced people out of court. At the same time, neither I nor my friends and colleagues, including those from the DPRK, know anything about people being extrajudicially sentenced to death. General rule: only the court condemns to death, although it is clear that when we're talking about about purges among important officials, the verdict is a foregone conclusion and comes down from above.

What does a Korean court look like?

The court, like all other areas of life in North Korea, is Lately susceptible to corruption, so it is quite possible for a judge to pay a large bribe to buy himself or a loved one an acquittal. But this is for criminal cases, not for political ones. A political police squad simply arrives, its chief reads out the decree on exile to a camp - and that’s it, the prisoners are put in a truck and taken away. In the latter case, they are not even informed of the term of imprisonment.

How many people are sentenced to capital punishment?

If i knew. North Korea, of course, does not publish statistics, and it is impossible to collect them. My personal feeling is more than in neighboring countries, but not very much; after the death of Kim Il Sung, a death sentence is a comparative rarity, but, I repeat, this is just a feeling.

Are those sentenced to death really burned with a flamethrower and shot from a cannon?

I personally am not aware of such cases. The standard method of death penalty in the DPRK is execution. The condemned person is tied to a post or tree and the firing squad fires several shots. The work of an executioner is not a pleasant task, but the job does not end with execution - then you need to untie the corpse of the person you just killed, pack it in a bag and put it in a truck. There have been cases when people abandoned prestigious job in state security because they could not stand it. The worst thing, according to those who served in the North Korean security service, is to hold the gaze of the condemned person seconds before the shot (often, convicts in the DPRK are not blindfolded).

Under Kim Il Sung (who actually led the state from 1948–1994), another fairly popular method of execution was hanging, and the executioner had to tie a knot on the side of the neck of the person being executed, and not from the back, which aggravated the torment of the victim. Kim Jong Il(Great Leader of the DPRK in 1994–2011) after coming to power, he canceled some of the particularly barbaric innovations of his father, and now in the DPRK they almost never hang - execution has become almost universal look executions.

And about exotic species, on the one hand, as I already said, I personally did not come across such information, on the other hand, rumors that someone, relatively speaking, was shot from a heavy machine gun or other unusual looking weapons, go very intensively and through a variety of channels, so that, with a fairly high probability, there may be some kind of real facts. But alas, nothing can be said for sure here.

Kim Jong-un takes part in executions?

No. There was not a single mention of this in the South Korean media, but it is clear that even if Kim had simply stood on the sidelines during one of the executions, this would have given rise to a wave of rumors that would have inevitably leaked across the border.

Where does information about the executions of representatives of the North Korean elite come from?

In exceptional cases - from the North Korean press itself. Over the past decades, there has been one such case - the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong-un's uncle. The fact that the “traitor of all times” Jang was executed was reported in December 2013 by the main newspaper of the DPRK, Nodong Sinmun.

Typically, such information comes from networks of South Korean media informants specializing in North Korean topics (primarily DailyNK), or the largest South Korean newspapers (primarily the largest of them, the Chosun Ilbo). A message appears in Korean, then it is translated into English and spread around the world.

In the case of Hyun Yong Chol, the message, however, came from South Korean intelligence, which rarely comes out with such sensations. The previous time was in 2013, when intelligence officers reported the purge of Jang Song Thaek several days before the Nodong Sinmun itself. Therefore, the likelihood that this message is true is quite high.

It was reported that Hyun was shot with a heavy machine gun because he “fell asleep at a meeting”, is this true?

The original report by the South Korean media, with reference to South Korean parliamentarians who participated in the intelligence briefing, actually referred to an anti-aircraft machine gun. As for the second message, here foreign journalists have shifted their emphasis. South Korean media reported that Hyun Yong Chol's apparent dozing off during the Fifth Korean People's Army Instructors' Retreat was just one factor in a long series of events leading to his execution. In this formulation, it does not sound incredible: in the end, Jang Song Thaek was quite officially executed for the fact that he reluctantly rose from his seat and insincerely applauded Kim Jong-un at the Third Party Conference of the WPK. But, of course, this was neither the main nor the only reason; no one claimed this.

Why has the number of executions increased?

Because Kim Jong Il died in 2011, and his son Kim Jong Un adheres to, let’s say, a different leadership style in relation to the top bureaucrats and generals.

Which cases were the most resonant?

First of all, this is, of course, the above-mentioned execution of uncle Kim Jong-un. In addition, one can recall the trial of the former head of the Korean Communist Party, Park Hong-yong, in 1955 - he was executed on charges of espionage for the United States and Japan; the trial followed Stalinist models. From more modern events: In 2010, Park Nam Gi, the former head of the WPK's Finance and Planning Department, was executed.

In general, “sensational” reports from North Korea should be treated with caution. For example, in August 2013, the media wrote that “the former mistress of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un” was executed singer Hyun Song Wol" In fact, Hyun is alive and well, but there was no evidence that she had an affair with Kim Jr.

Do ordinary North Koreans know anything about executions?

They generally know about the death penalty, of course, since the North Korean authorities love to organize public executions, to which the local population, including schoolchildren, are rounded up.

About the death penalty big bosses, if not announced publicly, is known to those who listen, at their own risk, to South Korean radio. Plus, the authorities release information about some executions through closed channels- for example, for high-ranking state security officials or party officials. Through such channels, in 1997, the execution of the Secretary of the WPK Central Committee was reported. agriculture Seo Kwang Hee.

Are international human rights organizations at least somehow influence the process?

Of course, they are trying, but the benefit from this is about the same as from trying to stop the movement of a heavy tank by knocking on the caterpillar with a fly swatter. It is clear that for the North Korean authorities the very concept of human rights and freedoms is nothing more than an empty phrase.

Is there an end to this?

North Korea is a dictatorship, and therefore all decisions of this kind are made by one person - Kim Jong-un. Of course, if tomorrow he suddenly decides to abolish the death penalty, then so be it. However, he has no motivation for this, and in relation to the top management, young Kim is many times more radical than his father and even grandfather. Purges of the intensity that have continued since Kim Jong Un came to power have not occurred in North Korean history since at least the late 1950s, and perhaps never. Therefore, the message about the execution of Hyun Yong Chol will almost certainly be far from last message of such kind.

On April 30, the DPRK Defense Minister, Army General Hyun Yong Chol, was publicly executed in Pyongyang. The most likely reason for the execution is disrespect for leader Kim Jong-un, as well as failure to follow his instructions. This was stated by the Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service (NRS) of South Korea.

At the same time, the LDC denied rumors about the execution of Kim Jong-un's aunt Kim Kyong-hui. It is possible that it was precisely these “internal affairs” that did not allow Kim Jong-un to take part in the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow.

Sensational details of another internal political storm in the DPRK were reported today by Deputy Director of the DPR Han Ki-beom during a closed briefing for members of the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee. Despite the secret nature of the conversation, its main content was conveyed to journalists by deputies Lee Chol Woo and Shin Gen Min.

According to South Korean intelligence, 66-year-old North Korean Defense Minister Hyun Yong Chol was executed on April 30 at a shooting range in the Sunhwa area of ​​Pyongyang. He was shot from anti-aircraft machine guns in the presence of several hundred people. It was noted that on April 28, Hyun, who was the second person in the military hierarchy, was present at a public event - a concert of the Moranbong group, but after that he was arrested. The decision to execute him was made quickly and, as South Korean experts emphasize, “even without imitating an investigation and trial.”

Speculation immediately arose that everything happened by order of the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un. Two factors were cited as reasons for the execution. Recently, during one of the public meetings, the Minister of Defense fell asleep during Kim Jong-un's speech, which did not escape the leader. In addition, Hyun, who is the second most influential figure in the army, second only to the head of the Main Political Directorate (GPU) of the armed forces, allowed himself to argue with Kim and did not carry out some of his instructions. As a result, the Minister of Defense was executed for disobedience and lack of due respect for the leader.

A number of South Korean experts have suggested that this whole situation has become the real reason the fact that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, contrary to expectations, refused to travel to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow. Then, we recall, according to the Kremlin, Kim was unable to come “due to internal affairs.”

Information about the execution of the DPRK Defense Minister immediately provoked active debate and commentary among South Korean experts and the media. IN currently Almost all major television channels are discussing the execution of Hyun Yong Chol. First, information appeared that, along with the Minister of Defense, the head of the GPU of the army, Hwang Byung So, who was one of the leader’s two main assistants, was executed along with the Minister of Defense, who was above him in the North Korean hierarchy. But the Southern media quickly issued a denial.

On the other hand, everyone immediately remembered the recent statements by intelligence officers that since the beginning of the year, on the orders of Kim Jong-un, for one reason or another, a total of 15 military and party leaders have been executed. Speculation has begun about internal political instability within the DPRK; some Western media have already rushed to declare that “North Korea will collapse in a maximum of three years.” But all this still remains at the level of speculation.

Deputy Director of South Korean intelligence Han Ki-beom, demonstrating confidence in the reliability of information sources, denied the emerging reports about the execution of Kim Jong-un's aunt Kim Kyung-hee. Yesterday, the American television channel CNN, citing the words of a high-ranking defector from the DPRK, stated that by order of the leader, Kim Gen Hee was executed. She was allegedly forced to drink poison. Kim was the wife of the previously executed Jang Song Thaek, once the second figure after the leader of the state. However, NRS Vice-Director Khan said that all these rumors "have no basis in fact." “According to our information, nothing unusual happened to Kim Kyung-hee, she is alive,” Han was quoted as saying by a parliamentarian who spoke with him.

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Hyun Yong Chol was born on January 11, 1949 in Oran County, North Hamgyong Province. IN last years held a number of key military and party posts, including the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), a candidate member of the Politburo of the WPK Central Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Military Committee of the WPK, and was a member of State Committee defense In July 2012, he received the rank of vice-marshal, but was then demoted to colonel general. Since June 2014 - Army General and Minister of Defense of the DPRK. According to South Korean intelligence, he was publicly shot for disrespect and disobedience to the leader on April 30, 2015.

Biography

Since 1966 he served in the Korean People's Army. He graduated from the Kim Il Sung Military University, served as a battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, chief of staff of a training center, deputy chief of the General Staff, head of the Intelligence Department, and corps commander.

Execution

Military ranks

Awards

By Decree of the Supreme Presidium people's assembly dated February 9, 2012, he was awarded, together with other officials, the Order of Kim Jong Il.

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The last day of Moscow has arrived. It was clear, cheerful autumn weather. It was Sunday. As on ordinary Sundays, mass was announced in all churches. No one, it seemed, could yet understand what awaited Moscow.
Only two indicators of the state of society expressed the situation in which Moscow was: the mob, that is, the class of poor people, and the prices of objects. Factory workers, courtyard workers and peasants in a huge crowd, which included officials, seminarians, and nobles, went out to the Three Mountains early in the morning. Having stood there and not waiting for Rostopchin and making sure that Moscow would be surrendered, this crowd scattered throughout Moscow, into drinking houses and taverns. Prices that day also indicated the state of affairs. The prices for weapons, for gold, for carts and horses kept rising, and the prices for pieces of paper and for city things kept going down, so that in the middle of the day there were cases when the cabbies took out expensive goods, like cloth, for nothing, and for a peasant's horse paid five hundred rubles; furniture, mirrors, bronzes were given away for free.
In the sedate and old Rostov house, the disintegration of previous living conditions was expressed very weakly. The only thing about people was that three people from a huge courtyard disappeared that night; but nothing was stolen; and in relation to the prices of things, it turned out that the thirty carts that came from the villages were enormous wealth, which many envied and for which the Rostovs were offered huge amounts of money. Not only were they offering huge amounts of money for these carts, but from the evening and early morning of September 1st, orderlies and servants sent from the wounded officers came to the Rostovs’ yard, and the wounded themselves, who were placed with the Rostovs and in neighboring houses, were dragged along, and begged the Rostovs’ people to take care of that they be given carts to leave Moscow. The butler, to whom such requests were addressed, although he felt sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he would not even dare to report this to the count. No matter how pitiful the remaining wounded were, it was obvious that if they gave up one cart, there was no reason not to give up the other, and give up everything and their crews. Thirty carts could not save all the wounded, and in the general disaster it was impossible not to think about yourself and your family. This is what the butler thought for his master.
Waking up on the morning of the 1st, Count Ilya Andreich quietly left the bedroom so as not to wake up the countess who had just fallen asleep in the morning, and in his purple silk robe he went out onto the porch. The carts, tied up, stood in the yard. Carriages stood at the porch. The butler stood at the entrance, talking with the old orderly and the young, pale officer with his arm tied. The butler, seeing the count, made a significant and stern sign to the officer and orderly to leave.
- Well, is everything ready, Vasilich? - said the count, rubbing his bald head and looking good-naturedly at the officer and orderly and nodding his head to them. (The Count loved new faces.)
- At least harness it now, your Excellency.
- Well, that’s great, the countess will wake up, and God bless you! What are you doing, gentlemen? – he turned to the officer. - In my house? – The officer moved closer. His pale face suddenly flushed with bright color.
- Count, do me a favor, let me... for God's sake... take refuge somewhere on your carts. Here I have nothing with me... I’m in the cart... it doesn’t matter... - Before the officer had time to finish, the orderly turned to the count with the same request for his master.
- A! “Yes, yes, yes,” the count spoke hastily. - I'm very, very happy. Vasilich, you give orders, well, to clear one or two carts, well... well... what is needed... - the count said in some vague expressions, ordering something. But at the same moment, the officer’s ardent expression of gratitude already cemented what he had ordered. The count looked around him: in the courtyard, at the gate, in the window of the outbuilding, the wounded and orderlies could be seen. They all looked at the count and moved towards the porch.
- Please, your Excellency, to the gallery: what do you order about the paintings? - said the butler. And the count entered the house with him, repeating his order not to refuse the wounded who asked to go.
“Well, well, we can put something together,” he added in a quiet, mysterious voice, as if afraid that someone would hear him.
At nine o'clock the countess woke up, and Matryona Timofeevna, her former maid, who served as chief of gendarmes in relation to the countess, came to report to her former young lady that Marya Karlovna was very offended and that the young ladies summer dresses You can't stay here. When the countess questioned why m me Schoss was offended, it was revealed that her chest had been removed from the cart and all the carts were being untied - they were removing the goods and taking with them the wounded, whom the count, in his simplicity, ordered to be taken with him. The Countess ordered to ask for her husband.
– What is it, my friend, I hear things are being removed again?
- You know, ma chere, I wanted to tell you this... ma chere countess... an officer came to me, asking me to give several carts for the wounded. After all, this is all a gainful business; But think about what it’s like for them to stay!.. Really, in our yard, we invited them ourselves, there are officers here. You know, I think, right, ma chere, here, ma chere... let them take them... what's the rush?.. - The Count timidly said this, as he always said when it came to money. The Countess was already accustomed to this tone, which always preceded a task that ruined the children, like some kind of construction of a gallery, greenhouse, arrangement home theater or music - and she got used to it and considered it her duty to always resist what was expressed in this timid tone.
She assumed her obediently deplorable appearance and said to her husband:
“Listen, Count, you’ve brought it to the point that they won’t give anything for the house, and now you want to destroy all of our children’s wealth.” After all, you yourself say that there is a hundred thousand worth of goods in the house. I, my friend, neither agree nor agree. Your will! The government is there for the wounded. They know. Look: across the street, at the Lopukhins’, they took everything away just three days ago. That's how people do it. We are the only fools. At least have pity on me, but on the children.
The Count waved his hands and, without saying anything, left the room.
- Dad! what are you talking about? - Natasha told him, following him into her mother’s room.
- Nothing! What do you care? – the count said angrily.
“No, I heard,” said Natasha. - Why doesn’t mummy want to?
- What do you care? - the count shouted. Natasha went to the window and thought.
“Dad, Berg has come to see us,” she said, looking out the window.

Berg, the Rostovs' son-in-law, was already a colonel with Vladimir and Anna around his neck and occupied the same calm and pleasant place as assistant chief of staff, assistant to the first department of the chief of staff of the second corps.
On September 1, he arrived from the army in Moscow.
He had nothing to do in Moscow; but he noticed that everyone from the army asked to go to Moscow and did something there. He also considered it necessary to take time off for household and family matters.
Berg, in his neat droshky on a pair of well-fed savrasenki, exactly the same as one prince had, drove up to his father-in-law’s house. He looked carefully into the yard at the carts and, entering the porch, took out a clean handkerchief and tied a knot.
From the hall, Berg ran into the living room with a floating, impatient step and hugged the count, kissed the hands of Natasha and Sonya and hastily asked about his mother’s health.
– How is your health now? Well, tell me,” said the count, “what about the troops?” Are they retreating or will there be another battle?
“One eternal god, dad,” said Berg, “can decide the fate of the fatherland.” The army is burning with the spirit of heroism, and now the leaders, so to speak, have gathered for a meeting. What will happen is unknown. But I’ll tell you in general, dad, such a heroic spirit, the truly ancient courage of the Russian troops, which they – it,” he corrected himself, “showed or showed in this battle on the 26th, there are no words worthy to describe them... I’ll tell you, dad (he hit himself on the chest in the same way as one general who was talking in front of him hit himself, although a little late, because he should have hit himself on the chest at the word “Russian army”) - I’ll tell you frankly that we, the leaders, “Not only should we not have urged the soldiers or anything like that, but we could forcefully hold back these, these... yes, courageous and ancient feats,” he said quickly. – General Barclay, before Tolly, sacrificed his life everywhere in front of the army, I’ll tell you. Our corps was placed on the slope of the mountain. You can imagine! - And then Berg told everything that he remembered from the various stories he had heard during this time. Natasha, without lowering her gaze, which confused Berg, as if looking for a solution to some question on his face, looked at him.