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N. Korean official reportedly executed for detente policies toward the South
SEOUL — North Korea's increasingly belligerent Kim Jong-Il regime executed a key official who had pushed for reconciliation with South Korea, according to reports here.
Choe Sung-Chol, who served as the high-profile point man on South Korea as vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, was executed last year for mishandling relations with Seoul before and after its new conservative government took office, the South's Yonhap News Agency reported on May 19.
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South Korean Vice Unification Minister Lee Kwan-se, left, shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Choe Sung Chol in Kaesong, North Korea, on Aug. 14, 2007.
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