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SEOUL, July 14 – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sacked or demoted some senior officials for their “irresponsible” handling of his flagship project to build a new town in the country’s north, state media KCNA said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kim announced the decision while visiting Samjiyon<\/a>, where North Korea has been building what it called a “socialist utopia<\/a>” and “a model of highly-civilised mountain city” with new apartments, hotels, a ski resort and commercial, cultural and medical facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While praising builders for their achievements so far, Kim said the irresponsibility of senior officials had caused a series of serious deviations including poor construction work and financial losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He singled out Ri Sun Chol, minister of state construction control who was appointed in September, as a “good-for-nothing person” who has never even been to the site since December, suspending him and calling for a formal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kim also suspended all members of a construction inspection committee for the project, demoted a ruling Worker’s Party official responsible for the matter, and vowed to reexamine vice premier and others over their neglect of duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Going round the newly-built hotels for domestic tourists, he severely pointed out that their construction was carried out at an outdated and backward level,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) SEOUL, July 14 – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sacked or demoted some senior officials for their “irresponsible” handling of his flagship project to build a new town in the country’s north, state media KCNA said on Sunday. Kim announced the decision while visiting Samjiyon, where North Korea has been building what it called a “socialist utopia” and “a model of highly-civilised mountain city” with new apartments, hotels, a ski resort and commercial, cultural and medical facilities. While praising builders for their achievements so far, Kim said the irresponsibility of senior officials had caused a series of serious… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40612,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions\/40612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}