Previous South Korean media reports about senior North Korean officials being executed following the talks have proven false. Talks between the U.S. and North Korea have stalled since the Vietnam summit, with no plans to get them back underway. A big riskKim Dong-yub, professor specializing in North Korea at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies in South Korea, said he was skeptical that the Chosun report was credible. Two years later, Madrid expelled him in retaliation for North Korean nuclear and missile tests. He has also ventured where few North Korean diplomats go — social media, appearing in videos posted to YouTube calling for the U.S. to drop sanctions choking North Korea’s economy.

Source: National Post May 31, 2019 12:06 UTC