Kim Jong Un has ordered the execution of up to 30 officials for their alleged failure to prevent widespread flooding and landslides that hit North Korea this summer and killed around 4,000 people, according to South Korean media, cited by the New York Post. An official in the Kim regime said 20 to 30 people in power in North Korea were prosecuted for corruption and dereliction of duty, with the state eventually sentencing them to death, the Chosun news agency reported. “It has been found that 20 to 30 district officials in the flood-hit area were executed simultaneously late last month,” the official said. These reports have not yet been verified by independent media, the publication notes. North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency had previously reported that Kim had ordered that officials responsible be “severely punished” after the devastating floods that hit Chagang province in July, killing […]
Source: News Beast
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