Kim Jong Un visits typhoon-hit areas

 North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has visited typhoon-stricken areas in the northeast, fired a pinnacle official there and promised to ship 12,000 people from Pyongyang for healing efforts, state media mentioned Sunday.

It’s the ultra-modern in a collection of high-profile visits through Kim and his deputies to areas hit with the aid of herbal failures in current weeks. Some professionals say Kim possibly tried to venture an photograph of a chief searching after people's livelihoods as he seeks to bolster interior harmony in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and U.S.-led sanctions.

The Korean Central News Agency stated that Kim on Saturday visited South Hamgyong province, which was once hit via Typhoon Maysak final week. It stated Kim used to be briefed that the hurricane destroyed extra than 1,000 homes and inundated public structures and farmland in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong as nicely as close by North Hamgyong province.

KCNA didn’t record any deaths or accidents in the two provinces. But the country’s essential Rodong Sinmun newspaper stated Saturday that “dozens of casualties” had been suggested in Kangwon province, south of the Hamgyong provinces, and that officers in Kangwon will be "severely punished" for failing to evacuate residents.

Kim additionally convened a high-level coverage assembly there, the place he “underscored the want to make the restoration marketing campaign from injury an vital political work and an event of consolidating the single-mined unity,” KCNA said.

Kim stated authorities should issue “a normal mobilization order” to make certain the swift provide of substances for rehabilitation works and entreated contributors of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, the capital, to take the lead.

In a separate open letter to party individuals in Pyongyang, Kim stated the 12,000-strong divisions of the party “elite” will be despatched to useful resource recuperation in South and North Hamgyong provinces.

KCNA stated Kim additionally pushed aside Kim Song Il, chairman of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party.

Kim wants larger public help to deal with worsening financial ache precipitated by using U.S.-led sanctions imposed over his nuclear program, and the coronavirus pandemic that had compelled him to seal off his country’s border with China, its largest buying and selling associate and financial pipeline.

North Korea has insisted it hasn’t determined any virus case, a claim broadly disputed via overseas analysts. Despite the pandemic, observers say Kim will probable keep a army parade and different countrywide occasions subsequent month to have fun the seventy fifth founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party in an effort to enhance his family’s rule.

Late final month, Kim visited a western coastal place hit with the aid of some other hurricane and expressed alleviation that the harm wasn’t significant. Earlier in August, he visited different locations where days of torrential rains flooded lots of homes and huge areas of agricultural land.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry stated after Kim's early August day trip that it was once uncommon for him to go to a flood-stricken site, announcing the final time he did so used to be in September 2015. 

 North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has visited typhoon-stricken areas in the northeast, fired a pinnacle official there and promised to ship 12,000 people from Pyongyang for healing efforts, state media mentioned Sunday.

It’s the ultra-modern in a collection of high-profile visits through Kim and his deputies to areas hit with the aid of herbal failures in current weeks. Some professionals say Kim possibly tried to venture an photograph of a chief searching after people's livelihoods as he seeks to bolster interior harmony in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and U.S.-led sanctions.

The Korean Central News Agency stated that Kim on Saturday visited South Hamgyong province, which was once hit via Typhoon Maysak final week. It stated Kim used to be briefed that the hurricane destroyed extra than 1,000 homes and inundated public structures and farmland in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong as nicely as close by North Hamgyong province.

KCNA didn’t record any deaths or accidents in the two provinces. But the country’s essential Rodong Sinmun newspaper stated Saturday that “dozens of casualties” had been suggested in Kangwon province, south of the Hamgyong provinces, and that officers in Kangwon will be "severely punished" for failing to evacuate residents.

Kim additionally convened a high-level coverage assembly there, the place he “underscored the want to make the restoration marketing campaign from injury an vital political work and an event of consolidating the single-mined unity,” KCNA said.

Kim stated authorities should issue “a normal mobilization order” to make certain the swift provide of substances for rehabilitation works and entreated contributors of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, the capital, to take the lead.

In a separate open letter to party individuals in Pyongyang, Kim stated the 12,000-strong divisions of the party “elite” will be despatched to useful resource recuperation in South and North Hamgyong provinces.

KCNA stated Kim additionally pushed aside Kim Song Il, chairman of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party.

Kim wants larger public help to deal with worsening financial ache precipitated by using U.S.-led sanctions imposed over his nuclear program, and the coronavirus pandemic that had compelled him to seal off his country’s border with China, its largest buying and selling associate and financial pipeline.

North Korea has insisted it hasn’t determined any virus case, a claim broadly disputed via overseas analysts. Despite the pandemic, observers say Kim will probable keep a army parade and different countrywide occasions subsequent month to have fun the seventy fifth founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party in an effort to enhance his family’s rule.

Late final month, Kim visited a western coastal place hit with the aid of some other hurricane and expressed alleviation that the harm wasn’t significant. Earlier in August, he visited different locations where days of torrential rains flooded lots of homes and huge areas of agricultural land.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry stated after Kim's early August day trip that it was once uncommon for him to go to a flood-stricken site, announcing the final time he did so used to be in September 2015. 

 North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has visited typhoon-stricken areas in the northeast, fired a pinnacle official there and promised to ship 12,000 people from Pyongyang for healing efforts, state media mentioned Sunday.

It’s the ultra-modern in a collection of high-profile visits through Kim and his deputies to areas hit with the aid of herbal failures in current weeks. Some professionals say Kim possibly tried to venture an photograph of a chief searching after people's livelihoods as he seeks to bolster interior harmony in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and U.S.-led sanctions.

The Korean Central News Agency stated that Kim on Saturday visited South Hamgyong province, which was once hit via Typhoon Maysak final week. It stated Kim used to be briefed that the hurricane destroyed extra than 1,000 homes and inundated public structures and farmland in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong as nicely as close by North Hamgyong province.

KCNA didn’t record any deaths or accidents in the two provinces. But the country’s essential Rodong Sinmun newspaper stated Saturday that “dozens of casualties” had been suggested in Kangwon province, south of the Hamgyong provinces, and that officers in Kangwon will be "severely punished" for failing to evacuate residents.

Kim additionally convened a high-level coverage assembly there, the place he “underscored the want to make the restoration marketing campaign from injury an vital political work and an event of consolidating the single-mined unity,” KCNA said.

Kim stated authorities should issue “a normal mobilization order” to make certain the swift provide of substances for rehabilitation works and entreated contributors of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, the capital, to take the lead.

In a separate open letter to party individuals in Pyongyang, Kim stated the 12,000-strong divisions of the party “elite” will be despatched to useful resource recuperation in South and North Hamgyong provinces.

KCNA stated Kim additionally pushed aside Kim Song Il, chairman of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party.

Kim wants larger public help to deal with worsening financial ache precipitated by using U.S.-led sanctions imposed over his nuclear program, and the coronavirus pandemic that had compelled him to seal off his country’s border with China, its largest buying and selling associate and financial pipeline.

North Korea has insisted it hasn’t determined any virus case, a claim broadly disputed via overseas analysts. Despite the pandemic, observers say Kim will probable keep a army parade and different countrywide occasions subsequent month to have fun the seventy fifth founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party in an effort to enhance his family’s rule.

Late final month, Kim visited a western coastal place hit with the aid of some other hurricane and expressed alleviation that the harm wasn’t significant. Earlier in August, he visited different locations where days of torrential rains flooded lots of homes and huge areas of agricultural land.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry stated after Kim's early August day trip that it was once uncommon for him to go to a flood-stricken site, announcing the final time he did so used to be in September 2015.