Hyon Yong-Chol, 66, (main image) who was named head of North
Korea's military in 2012, was killed in the capital Pyongyang by a ZPU-4
anti-aircraft gun (inset) on April 30. The official was last known to have
spoken publicly at a security conference in Moscow earlier that month, but is
understood to have been arrested shortly afterwards on charges of showing
disrespect to Kim Jong-un (top right) by falling asleep at a military event and
making public complaints about him. It is not the first time anti-aircraft guns
have been used for public executions in North Korea, with recently released
satellite images (bottom right) showing a number of unidentified people being
killed using the brutal method last October. In those executions, the targets
were just 100 feet away from the weapons, which have a range of 8,000 metres.
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