(CNN) A senior North Korean military leader believed executed earlier this year for "factionalism, misuse of authority and corruption" seems to be alive and still a part of the secretive nation's ruling party after all.

Gen. Ri Yong-gil turned up in official state media accounts of the recently concluded Workers' Party Congress . In a document published by Rodong Simmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party Central Committee, Ri is listed as an alternate member of the committee's political bureau.

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In February, a South Korean government official with knowledge of North Korean affairs told CNN that Ri had been executed . Now, that same official says incorrect information led to the conclusion that Ri had been killed.

"North Korea officially publicized Ri's photo and recent state, so we came to believe that he was not executed," the source told CNN on Tuesday.

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