This week’s visit is the latest in a series of inspections the North Korean leader has made of flood-hit farmlands amid mounting concerns over a food crisis in the reclusive country.
Kim inspected a tideland on the west coast on Monday after seawater recently destroyed an embankment with inadequate drainage system, flooding more than 560 hectares of land, including over 270 hectares of rice paddies, news agency KCNA said.
“He said ... in recent years the administrative and economic discipline of the Kim Tok Hun Cabinet has got out of order more seriously and, consequently, the idlers are spoiling all the state economic work with the irresponsible work manner,” the KCNA said in an English-language dispatch. This week’s visit is the latest in a series of inspections the North Korean leader has made of flood-hit farmlands amid mounting concerns overLim Eul-chul, a professor of North Korean studies at South Korea’s Kyungnam University, said Kim’s harsh criticism could herald a cabinet reshuffle. It also demonstrates that the economy is not developing as planned, Lim added.
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