Kim Jong Un had a relationship with the singer before he married Ri Sol-Ju , pictured (Picture: AFP / KCNA)

A former girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been executed for violating laws against pornography, according to reports in South Korea.

Singer Hyon Song-wol was arrested and killed by firing squad along with several other performers on the orders of the dictator, according to Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper.

The 12 victims, members of two popular music troupes in the secretive communist state, were accused of filming themselves having sex and selling the videotapes.

They allegedly also had bibles in their possession and were therefore treated as political dissidents, it has been reported.


‘They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on,’ a source told the newspaper.



Family members of the victims are believed to have been taken to prison camps after the execution under North Korea’s guilty by association laws.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lwaves to Korean War veterans (Picture: AP /David Guttenfelder)

Kim Jong-un and Hyon Song-wol reportedly met ten years ago, but Kim was ordered to break off the relationship on the orders of his father Kim Jong-il.

Kim married Ri Sol-Ju in 2009, however there had been rumours the pair were still having an affair.