North Korea Publicizes Corruption Case: Military Official Accused of Graft and Bribery

North Korea has announced a corruption case involving a former deputy director of the Organization Department of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau and his associates, following a joint meeting of the Party, government, and military attended by General Secretary Kim Jong-un.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported today (July 11) that a "joint meeting of the Party, government, and military was held in Pyongyang on July 10 to sound an alarm against all kinds of anti-revolutionary, anti-socialist, and anti-people acts and to signal the intensification of a high-intensity struggle."
The agency stated that "data was reported exposing the massive corruption committed by Park Hui-chol, the former deputy director of the Organization Department of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau, and his followers."
The report explained that Park abused his "organizational and personnel authority to engage in corruption and illicit accumulation of wealth," causing harm through "the solicitation of large sums of bribes and debauchery."
The KCNA explained that measures were taken to book and investigate the corruption charges at a meeting of the Workers' Party Central Military Commission held in late June, and that a subsequent plenary meeting decided to recall him from the Party's central leadership body and hand him over to judicial authorities.
During the meeting, sentences were handed down to the accused, including Park and his associates, but the specific details of the sentencing were not disclosed.
General Secretary Kim Jong-un stated, "The lesson of this incident is that if we do not continuously deepen education and control so that officials are not contaminated by corruption and do not abandon Party principles, we cannot prevent corrupt acts."
The KCNA further reported that he "declared the solemn position of the Party Central Committee to continuously increase the intensity of organizational and ideological offensives and legal struggles to root out corruption."
(Photo: Korean Central News Agency, Yonhap News)
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