Just a week after NK News reported on the public disappearance of Kim Jong Un’s wife, the South Korean press is reporting on the seeming departure of Ri Myong Su (pictured left), North Korea’s Minister of Public Security and a member of the Politburo.  As a powerful ally of the late Kim Jong Il, the disappearance of Ri starting to raise eyebrows in South Korea as possible evidence of another purge.

Yonhap reports(link in Korean) that Ri hasn’t been seen since the 6th meeting of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly, though he was not publicly identified, and has not been mentioned in an article since