North Korea executes official for blunder: report

2010/03/17 23:07:20 @Reuters: World News

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has executed a ruling party official blamed for a botched currency reform, in a desperate attempt to quell public unrest and stem negative impact on Pyongyang's power succession, a news report said on Thursday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KuKZ73SCyCI:1JeZM7AcWaY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KuKZ73SCyCI:1JeZM7AcWaY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KuKZ73SCyCI:1JeZM7AcWaY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KuKZ73SCyCI:1JeZM7AcWaY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KuKZ73SCyCI:1JeZM7AcWaY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/KuKZ73SCyCI" height="1" width="1"/
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