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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un issued some harsh discipline to the public officials he considered responsible for over 4,000 flood deaths. It’s being reported by South Korean media that 30 of them were executed for “alleged failure to prevent massive flooding and landslides in the summer.” Blaming it on climate change doesn’t cut it in his regime.
Kim Jong-Un displeased
There’s no excuse for shoddy workmanship under North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The 30 officials he considered responsible have been executed. That sends a clear message to their replacements not to screw up.
Whatever they overlooked allowed flood waters and landslides to kill around 4,000 people. The officials were “charged with corruption and dereliction of duty.”
After their totally fair and impartial trial they were sentenced by the state to death. Kim Jong-Un doesn’t accept excuses.
“It has been determined that 20 to 30 cadres in the flood-stricken area were executed at the same time late last month,” a regime official leaked to South Korean media, at risk to his own life.
Kim gave his team of administrators orders to “strictly punish” the officials “following his tour of the devastated areas.” The deaths have not been independently verified.
He’s been known to exaggerate in the past. Along with the dead, more than 15,000 people were displaced from Chagang Province in July.
Officials not identified
The officials weren’t identified but one report notes “that Kang Bong-hoon, the Chagang Province Provincial Party Committee Secretary since 2019, was among the leaders dismissed by Kim in an emergency meeting during the flooding disaster.”
Everyone knew something drastic would be coming.
After the emergency meeting Kim held, “former North Korean diplomat Lee Il-gyu told TV Chosun that it was clear officials in the province were anxious.” They “don’t know when their necks will fall off.”
The iron-fisted leader was spotted last month “surveying the damaged areas and meeting with residents as he estimated that it would take months to rebuild the flooded neighborhoods.” Heads will roll, he promised.
This isn’t the first time “reports have emerged of Kim ordering officials to be taken out over a perceived failure.” In 2019 reports that the nuclear envoy to the U.S. was executed for “failing to negotiate a summit between Kim and then-US President Donald Trump.”
He was simply sent to a prison camp. Even so, “North Korea generally has a high rate of public executions.“
