Choe Yong-gon (vice-premier)

Choe Yong-gon (최영건; 11 December 1951 – May 2015) was one of the vice-premiers of North Korea and deputy minister of construction and building material industries. He appears to have disappeared from public life after December 2014. In August 2015, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that, according to a "source who demanded anonymity", he is believed to have been executed in May 2015 after opposing the policies of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un on forestry.