Career
He performed with the Unhasu Orchestra at the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris in March 14, 2012. The Chosun Ilbo reported on August 29, 2013, that Mun Kyong-jin, along with a dozen other prominent North Korean musicians, had been arrested on August 17, on charges of allegedly violating laws against pornography. According to the report, other arrested musicians were arrested as political dissidents or accused of possessing Bibles.
The report said that Mun Kyong-jin was executed by firing squad on August 20, 2013.
However, it subsequently emerged that Hyon Song-wol had not been executed.