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
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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."