{"id":2453475,"date":"2025-06-29T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-erased-from-existing-photos-after-north-koreas-national-humiliation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:48:30","slug":"officials-erased-from-existing-photos-after-north-koreas-national-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-erased-from-existing-photos-after-north-koreas-national-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Erased from Existing Photos After North Korea&#8217;s National Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fofficials-erased-from-existing-photos-after-north-koreas-national-humiliation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2453475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-reacts-to-bump-stock-supreme-court-decision-the-court-has-spoken\/\" title=\"Trump campaign responds to Supreme Court&#039;s bump stock ruling: &quot;The court has spoken.\">provided text discusses<\/a> a serious incident involving North Korea&#8217;s military, specifically the botched launch of a new destroyer that resulted in the ship capsizing. As a outcome of this failure, two senior officials, Admr. Kim Myong Sil and Hong Kil Ho, are reportedly missing from state photographs, leading to speculation that they may have been executed. Kim Jong-un was present during the incident and expressed that the mishap reflected &#8220;absolute carelessness,&#8221; severely damaging the nation&#8217;s dignity. Despite the grave nature of the situation, North Korean state media downplayed the event, referring to the damage as &#8220;not serious&#8221; and portraying the subsequent actions as a exhibition of the nation&#8217;s naval strength. This situation reflects the harsh realities of leadership accountability in North korea, where public failures can result in drastic, often fatal, consequences for officials. The article also draws ancient parallels to similar practices in Stalinist regimes, emphasizing the oppressive nature of North korean governance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to North Korea, where making a very public mistake can potentially cost you your life.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s at least the worry for two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-prohibits-official-travel-to-fossil-fuel-conferences\/\" title=\"Biden bans government travel to fossil fuel conferences.\">senior officials involved<\/a> with the sinking of a destroyer during its botched loss last month. According to multiple reports, the two men have been erased from state photos &mdash; and many fear they&rsquo;ve been killed.<\/p>\n<p>The ship was the second of a new class of destroyer to be launched by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/russians-appear-commit-disturbing-act-faces-dead-north-koreans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the hermit state<\/a> from the shipyard in Chongjin &mdash; only things didn&rsquo;t go as planned, as indicated by the fact they tried to cover it up with tarps:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The North Korean propaganda video of Kim Jung Un boasting of his new warship&rsquo;s pending maiden voyage (with Russian music).<\/p>\n<p>And the warship sunken, covered with blue tarps to hide from the humiliating inevitability of satellite photos.<\/p>\n<p>Loser. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GRbSw1zbIM\">pic.twitter.com\/GRbSw1zbIM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayinKyiv\/status\/1925527403150856590?\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">North Korea was about to launch its second destroyer but the navy messed it up and the vessel tipped over on its side and was severely damaged.<\/p>\n<p>A furious Kim Jong Un was present at the site when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Heads will be rolling&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckBIgmpRn2\">pic.twitter.com\/ckBIgmpRn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Visegr&aacute;d 24 (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1925497903398682776?\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And heads weren&rsquo;t going to roll figuratively, but literally. The state-run Korea Central News Agency described the damage as &ldquo;not serious&rdquo; (going to disagree there) but &ldquo;an unpardonable criminal act&rdquo; (which, in North Korea, it definitely is).<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un, who was in attendance and watching when the sinking happened, said that the act &ldquo;severely damaged the [country&rsquo;s] dignity and pride&rdquo; and resulted from &ldquo;absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/18\/world-news\/kim-jong-un-erases-2-officials-photos-prompting-fears-they-were-executed-over-botched-warship-launch-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >high-ranking officials involved<\/a> have been retconned out of existence in old photos &mdash; a clear sign that wherever they are, things ain&rsquo;t good.<\/p>\n<p>Admr. Kim Myong Sil and Hong Kil Ho &mdash; who are responsible for operating the shipyard in Chongjin &mdash; have been &ldquo;expunged from the North Korean photographic record on orders of Kim &mdash; who blames them for the hermit kingdom&rsquo;s inability to launch,&rdquo; the Post reported on June 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/north-korea-finally-rights-national-humiliation-world-no-idea-strange-objects-seen-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ship<\/a> had become unbalanced as it was lowered into the water, which wrecked parts of the hull while leaving the bow of the 5,000-ton vessel still on the shipway.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to fears they were executed for this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kim Jong Un erases two officials from months-old state photos, prompting fears they were executed over botched warship launch: report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bhVnqp8T2K\">https:\/\/t.co\/bhVnqp8T2K<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v62panZWnG\">pic.twitter.com\/v62panZWnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1935531365530743264?\">June 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>The two North Korean honchos were originally pictured on the left side of the photo released by North Korean state media, near Kim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the edited photos released by North Korean state media, there is now a conspicuously empty space where Myong Sil and Kil Ho once stood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The move was reminiscent of the Soviet Union&rsquo;s brutal dictator Joseph Stalin, who made common practice of erasing political adversaries from notable pics, including the infamously overt erasure of Nikolai Yezhov.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, well, this is what happens when you leave things to one of the last pure adherents to a form of Stalinism, the scion of the brutal Kim cult of personality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/14\/world-news\/sunken-warship-relaunched-in-north-korea-as-part-of-naval-beef-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Post<\/a> reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/north-korea-tries-cover-national-humiliation-blue-tarps-fails-miserably\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Kim<\/a> was also making it seem like everything was hunky dory after the ship was righted, saying that it was &ldquo;convincing proof of the rapid transformation of our Navy. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one will doubt, I think, the rapid transformation of our Navy as they have witnessed the launching of another new-type destroyer less than two months after a similar event at the Nampho Shipyard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The super-radical growth of our Navy&rsquo;s operations capability is now being proved by powerful entities, not by a prediction or possibility, and this has already become an unstoppable, powerful current of history,&rdquo; Kim added.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, if you don&rsquo;t make sure that the &ldquo;unstoppable, powerful current of history&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t prevent your destroyer from capsizing when it&rsquo;s being lowered into the water, you could end up dead. Motivation!<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, this is more proof why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/phones-smuggled-north-korea-exactly-may-store-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Korea<\/a> cannot be dealt with on a rational basis. From all indications, this accident happened because the facility simply couldn&rsquo;t build and launch a destroyer the way that the regime wanted it to. Because of that lack of resources, men will be jailed and probably executed.<\/p>\n<p>Communism in action, yet again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This is the concern for two high-ranking officials linked to the recent sinking of a destroyer during its failed launch last month. Reports indicate that these men have been removed from state photographs, leading to fears that they may have been executed. The ship was part of a new class of destroyers launched from Chongjin, but things went awry, as evidenced by attempts to conceal the incident with tarps. Kim Jong Un was present during the mishap and expressed outrage over what he deemed an &#8220;unpardonable criminal act,&#8221; which he claimed severely damaged the nation&#8217;s dignity and pride due to &#8220;absolute carelessness.&#8221; Following this incident, it has been reported that these officials were expunged from official records on Kim&#8217;s orders, suggesting dire consequences for their roles in the failure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kju.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55833,32109,3638,58125,4488],"class_list":["post-2453475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-national-humiliation","tag-north-korea","tag-officials","tag-photo-manipulation","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kju.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453479,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453475\/revisions\/2453479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}