North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has demoted top officials and criticized technocrats, as the Covid-19 pandemic poses the worst home-front crisis of his reign
SEOUL—Kim Jong Un, more so than his predecessors, has spread out responsibility among an elite group of North Korean government officials. Now, facing the worst home-front crisis of his nearly decadelong reign, the young dictator is making sure to share the blame.Covid-19 situation was grave
. He slammed his technocrats for their “old way of thinking,” and threatened to replace them with those “fully prepared in terms of loyalty.” North Korean state media, reporting on the meeting, didn’t specify what had gone wrong. Mr. Kim fired a variety of officials, in what was the biggest leadership shake-up in nearly a decade, according to an analysis by Tae Yong Ho, a former senior North Korean diplomat who defected and is now an opposition lawmaker in South Korea.
One of the demoted appears to have been North Korea’s top military official, Ri Pyong Chol. On Thursday, state media published photographs of Mr. Kim at Kim Il Sung’s mausoleum, a visit marking a major holiday on the anniversary of his grandfather’s death. Mr. Ri appeared in plain clothes and stood two rows back from his customary spot next to the North Korean leader.
The overhaul was in part due to an effort by Mr. Kim to reshape the way the North Korean government operates.
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