A couple of years ago there was a crazy report that a former girlfriend of Kim Jong Un had been executed after she and her theatrical colleagues had made a pornographic film and sold it to China.
Recently there was a crazy report that a senior minister had been torn to death by dogs.
Now there is a crazy report (almost immediately retracted) that another minister has been killed by anti-aircraft guns.
Please be sceptical. The South Korean intelligence agencies are gullible, over-excitable, and stupid.
I lost any respect for them because of an episode when I was living in the country.
It was seriously speculated that Kim Il Sung was dead because he had not been seen for a couple of weeks, and because a flag - one flag - in the Demilitarized Zone had reportedly been seen flying at half-mast.
Of course, he was alive and must have been amused. His own intelligence agencies were not so silly.
The South Korean papers carried a picture of a flag at the top of the pole, explaining that this was the flag that was said to have been flying at half-mast. They didn't even have a photo as evidence. Naïve and incompetent!