Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to Kim Jong Un, has attended a performance with the North Korean leader, days after a report that the senior official was among a group allegedly purged in the wake of a failed summit between Mr Kim and US president Donald Trump.
Kim Yong Chol, the aide who was the counterpart to US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in the run-up to the Hanoi summit in February, was photographed attending a performance with the North Korean leader and other senior officials, according to state news agency Korean Central News Agency.
The report comes just days after Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s biggest daily newspaper, said Kim Yong Chol has been subjected to forced labour and ideological education in a remote province, while five other officials had been executed, including Kim Hyok Chol, special envoy to the US.