be executed later that year, also allegedly with an antiaircraft gun. the accounts come as part of a new report just released by the north korea strategy sin tercene group includes defectors spotlights human rights issues. the group says it interviewed many officials. kang said his group was told about the execution of a top police official, also close to kim s uncle. translator: kim jong-un especially hated him, so-so kim jong-un personally ordered him to be executed by using a flame thrower. so he was burned alive without even using the machine guns. and then after he was burned alive, the tanks around him kind of crushed him. reporter: the reason for pulverizing heir bodies, human rights observers say kim believed they weren t good enough to be buried on north korean soil. these senior officials were executed by gun or flame thrower
human rights observers say kim believed they weren t good enough to be buried on north korean soil. these senior officials who are executed by anti-aircraft gun or flamethrower are denied this right of leaving behind a body for the family. reporter: he says another official and his mystery were executed by being stripped and mauled by dogs. this came, this group says, on the personal orders of a man who president trump has consistently expressed admiration for. then we fell in love. really. reporter: should president trump be calling him chairman kim, meeting with him, professing his love when all indications show this is a murderous dictator. translator: meeting him in vietnam, saying good things? he is a murderer. it sends a low signal to the world. reporter: the kim regime has denied allegations of committing
reporter: russian officials don t ploobelieve any crime hasn committed. friends and colleagues say that s typical cover up. he thought he was in danger. the friend said borodin called him and said it was a false alarm. tonight borodin is dead having fallen from his fifth floor. friends and colleagues don t believe it was a suicide and human rights observers don t believe it was accidental. yet again, a russian journalist who is covering topics the kremlin doesn t want investigated has died.
reporter: up to now it s been fairly conventional war fare. they ve put a lot of focus on heavy weaponry, tanks, setting up check points, mobile check points, but they re dealing with an insurgency that s been going on for essentially since 2011. it its composed of local inhab tachtss, veterans who know that terrain very well, and if you speak to human rights observers, they feel that the egyptian authorities, the army and police have been using really a heavy hand, not really trying to win the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of the northern sinai but really just trying to eliminate them militarily, and that, they say, is why this has gone on so long. it s important to emphasize this is really just in the
aid cross the border to freedom in south korea. now that soldier who failed to stop his defection, they re facing fallout from kim jong un and his regime. our brian todd joins us with more details. brian? there s now considerable fallout from the escape inside kim jong un s regime as the dictator and his generals seek to punish those who allow the soldier to scramble across the border. they fired more than 40 bullets but failed to kill or capture him. and tonight, the north korean soldiers who couldn t keep their comrade from pulling off a dramatic escape last week are facing the fallout. a south korean lawmaker tells cnn nearly all the north korean soldiers present along the border that day have been replaced. human rights observers say being replaced could be the least of their worries. what s their most likely fate? they will be investigated by the military security command. possibly by the state security