Kim Jong-un executes top official by firing squad for SLOUCHING in a meeting… as dumpy despot orders staff to show him more respect

NORTH Korea has executed its education chief because he "slouched in a meeting".

The South Korean government said vice premier Kim Yong-jin was shot by firing squad for showing "disrespect" while leader Kim Jong-un presided over a session of the secretive regime's parliament.

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A South Korean official said: "Kim Yong-jin was denounced for his bad sitting posture when he was sitting below the rostrum.”

Further unspecified crimes were allegedly uncovered by interrogators and the senior minister was executed for being “an anti-party, anti-revolutionary agitator.”

It was not clear if Kim Yong-jin is related to Ri Yong-jin, a boss in the education ministry who was named one of two officials said to have been executed with an anti-aircraft gun in reports last week.

Ri's crime was to fall asleep in the presence of the leader.

Two other top officials were banished and sent for "reeducation", Seoul’s Unification Ministry said, apparently based on information from sources in the North.

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Spymaster Kim Yong Chol,— the head of inter-Korea relations - code for espionage against the South -— was made to undergo "revolutionary measures" at a rural farm in July.

Seoul officials believe Kim Yong Chol, 71, orchestrates cyber attacks on the South and was behind two attacks that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010, when he headed the North Korean army's intelligence agency.

He was said to have been punished for his "high-handed attitude" and ambition to expand his department.

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Another top official dealing with propaganda, Choe Hwi, was also reportedly put on a “revolutionary reeducation” program.

This is understood to mean being sent to work on a collective farm or a coal mine.

More than 100 party officials have been executed since Kim Jong-un took over from his father Kim Jong-il in 2011 as he tightens his grip on power.

The most notorious was Kim's own uncle and former second-in-command Jang Song-thaek, who was executed for charges including treason and corruption in December 2013.

North Korea is estimated to have executed at least 1,400 people since 2000.