North Korea suffered a storm. In anticipation of bad weather, the regime had ordered citizens to protect the effigies of the Kim dynasty “at all costs”. But after bad weather, leader Kim Jong-un attacks local authorities on Monday. According to him, they were “irresponsible” for not having been able to prevent the damage.
Tropical Storm Khanun, which slammed into Japan before heading to the Korean Peninsula, crossed North Korea early on Friday and brought heavy rains to the south. Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact on the isolated and impoverished North, whose infrastructure is less resilient, and which deforestation has made vulnerable to flooding.
They “took no action”
Visiting flooded farmland in eastern Anbyon County, Kim Jong-un said the area suffered more damage than others “entirely due to the extremely bad and irresponsible attitude of officials.” locals,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
“The authorities in this region have been insensitive to the measures taken by the state and have not taken any action,” the North Korean leader said, quoted in the article. As the storm approached the peninsula, North Korea waged “an aggressive campaign to deal with disastrous abnormal weather” and called for measures to minimize damage to North Korea’s economic output. . The country was periodically hit by famines during the 1990s, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives – some estimates put the death toll at millions.