This is how the writer of beautiful letters rolls when things don't go his way

If you don't get the results he's looking for at a summit with the Very Stable Genius, you get accused of espionage and executed:

North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday.

Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry officials after they were charged with spying for the United States, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing an unidentified source with knowledge of the situation.

"He was accused of spying for the United States for poorly reporting on the negotiations without properly grasping U.S. intentions," the source was quoted as saying.

The February summit in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, the second between Kim and Trump, failed to reach a deal because of conflicts over U.S. calls for complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and North Korean demands for sanctions relief.

And consider how fast one can go from being Kim's top policy advisor to breaking rocks in the hot sun:

The Chosun Ilbo story said that Kim Jong Un’s top aide Kim Yong Chol, “who was also involved in the summit, is reportedly undergoing hard labor.” He had been said to be Kim’s “most trusted policy advisor. He was North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s counterpart since Kim entered nuclear talks with the U.S. early last year.”

Kim seems to have gone to Hanoi ill-prepared and, well, somebody has to take the heat for that:

Duyeon Kim, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Seoul, also weighed in. She said, “Kim Jong Un may have gone into the summit with a faulty assessment from his team of Washington’s position and got caught flat-footed without a “Plan B” after Trump rejected North Korea’s disarmament offer. If the Chosun report is true, it may mean more delays for the sputtering nuclear talks…Perhaps this explains why Pyongyang has been ghosting Washington and Seoul since Hanoi because it might have needed to clean house and regroup before negotiating again.”

Memo to Pompeo and Bolton: press hard with the VSG for a stop to the patty-cake.