The Pyongyang regime is said to have executed six people in public for April's mass defection of 13 North Korean restaurant workers to South Korea.

Quoting sources who travel between China and the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, Choi Seong-ryong of a defector's organization revealed the testimonies to Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency on Friday. 

A total of six, including a state security agent, were executed on order from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on May fifth, according to Choi. About 100 people from the Department of State Security, General Reconnaissance Bureau, Foreign Ministry and People’s Security Ministry were said to have been present at the execution site in Pyongyang.
 
Choi added that the North detained the families of the 13 restaurant employees in an education facility for ideology training sessions.
 
The 13 North Koreans had worked at a North-owned restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in southern China. They escaped from their workplace and entered South Korea on April seventh after passing through a third country. In late May, three North Korean women who worked at another Pyongyang-owned restaurant in China were said to have escaped and arrived in the South.