SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned ‘incompetent’ apparatchiks for delays in the opening of an important factory, state media said Tuesday.
Nuclear-armed North Korea, which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes, has long struggled with its moribund state-managed economy and chronic food shortages.
Touring the opening of an industrial machinery complex on Monday, Kim blasted officials who he blamed for delays in the project, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
‘Owing to the irresponsible, rude and incompetent economic guidance officials, the first-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex encountered difficulties,’ Kim said…”
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