So Kwan-hui

So Kwan-hui
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	서관희
Hancha	徐寬熙
Revised Romanization	Seo Gwanhui
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏ Kwanhŭi

So Kwan-hui (1926–1997) was a North Korean politician. He served as the North Korean Minister of Agriculture.^[1]

In 1997, he was accused of spying for the United States government and sabotaging North Korean agriculture on purpose, leading to the North Korean famine.^[1] As a result, he was executed by firing squad publicly by the North Korean government.^[2]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Floru, J.P. (2017). The Sun Tyrant: A Nightmare Called North Korea. London, U.K.: Biteback Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 9781785902215. OCLC 984074543. When the size of the catastrophe he had caused became apparent, Kim Jong-il had his agricultural minister So Kwan-hui executed by firing squad. So was accused of being a spy for ‘the American imperialists and their South Korean lackeys’ and of having sabotaged North Korea’s self-reliance in agriculture.
^ Choe, Sang-hun (March 18, 2010). "N. Korea Is Said to Execute Finance Chief". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2017. North Korea publicly executed Seo Gwan-hee, a party secretary in charge of agriculture, on spying charges in 1997 when a famine decimated the population, according to defectors.

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[thesuntyrant21-1] Floru, J.P. (2017). The Sun Tyrant: A Nightmare Called North Korea. London, U.K.: Biteback Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 9781785902215. OCLC 984074543. When the size of the catastrophe he had caused became apparent, Kim Jong-il had his agricultural minister So Kwan-hui executed by firing squad. So was accused of being a spy for ‘the American imperialists and their South Korean lackeys’ and of having sabotaged North Korea’s self-reliance in agriculture.

[nytimesnkoreaissaidtoexecute-2] Choe, Sang-hun (March 18, 2010). "N. Korea Is Said to Execute Finance Chief". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2017. North Korea publicly executed Seo Gwan-hee, a party secretary in charge of agriculture, on spying charges in 1997 when a famine decimated the population, according to defectors.

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