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North Korean finance chief executed for botched currency reform

Pak Nam-gi killed by firing squad after currency reform worsened markets, but many see him as a scapegoat

North Korea has executed a senior official blamed for currency reforms that damaged the already ailing economy and potentially affected the succession, a news agency in South Korea reported today.

Pak Nam-gi was killed by firing squad last week, said Yonhap, citing multiple sources. The Workers party chief for planning and the economy had not been seen in public since January.

The 77-year-old was put to death as "a son of a bourgeois conspiring to infiltrate the ranks of revolutionaries to destroy the national economy", the agency said.

But it reported that many North Koreans did not believe the explanation, citing one source who said: "The mood is the leadership has made Pak Nam-gi a scapegoat."

November's abrupt redenomination of the won led to public discontent and was having a negative impact on plans for the succession, another source said.

Kim Jong-il, the country's Dear Leader, appears to be preparing the way for the transfer of power to his third son, Kim Jong-un. There has been widespread speculation about the state of his health following a reported stroke.

The International Crisis Group (ICG) described the currency revaluation as "disastrous", in a report released this week.

The reform appeared to be aimed at reasserting state control over the economy, curbing inflation and tackling corruption.

Although people were allowed to exchange currency – at a rate of 100 to one – a cap on the amount that could be changed wiped out the savings of slightly better off North Koreans.

Food prices soared as uncertainty over contradictory policies led to hoarding, the ICG said. By mid-January, there were reports of rising deaths from starvation, thought to have prompted the release of emergency food supplies.

The government later reversed a December ban on holding foreign currency and allowed markets to reopen.

But the ICG argued: "The relationship between the Workers party and the North Korean people has probably been damaged irreversibly [by the redenomination], which has serious implications for the long-term survival of the regime."

Daniel Pinkston, north-east Asia deputy project director, said Pak's execution was unlikely to be reported domestically, but it could possibly cause dissension with the party.

"Will people start thinking 'I could be next', or will they say 'He really screwed up and got what he deserved'?" he said.

North Korea has struggled to feed its people since the famine of the mid-90s and is still reliant on food aid. But aid reductions and United Nations sanctions resulting from its nuclear programme have further damaged the faltering economy, the ICG said, at a time when Pyongyang must also deal with the succession.

The Daily NK, a Seoul-based website run by democracy and human rights activists, said Pak had allegedly submitted a report saying redenomination would improve people's lives and secure the country's finances.

Pak was last mentioned by the North's official Korean Central News Agency in January, when he accompanied Kim on an inspection trip

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Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on March 18, 2010 at 11:38pm
Maybe we should "monkey see, monkey do" >:)
Comment by Locutus on March 18, 2010 at 8:12pm
Good info. Thanks for the update on the Korean situation. I was wondering how they were fairing after the revaluation of their currency last year. Doesn't seem like it has done the trick. Wait till the U.S. tries the same methods as N. Korea and Venezuela, recently, have. Good bye 401k and pension savings America.
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