{"id":46562,"date":"2020-09-24T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=46562"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:51:51","slug":"central-committee-investigation-leads-punishment-south-hamgyong-province-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/central-committee-investigation-leads-punishment-south-hamgyong-province-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Committee investigation leads to punishment for S. Hamgyong Province officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Workers&#8217; Party Central Committee investigation has led to widespread punishment of party, government and judicial officials in South Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Central Committee carried out an investigation into all organizations in South Hamgyong Province, which suffered severe damage in the typhoons due to a lack of advance preparation,\u201d a source in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Tuesday. \u201cMany officials received stern warnings, and some were sent to Komdok Mine as revolutionary [punishment].&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reportedly very angry at the irresponsibility of provincial officials when he visited damaged areas in South Hamgyong Province recently. He ended up sacking the head of the provincial party committee and ordering an investigation into all officials in the province who had neglected their duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sep. 6, the Korean Central News Agency and other state media outlets reported that the head of the provincial party committee had been replaced when Kim presided over an expanded meeting of the Central Committee\u2019s Executive Policy Council, which was held in the province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following Kim&#8217;s order to investigate all provincial officials for negligence, the Central Committee carried out investigations into all organizations in the province, including the provincial party committee, people\u2019s committee, the local Military Security Command office, and the Ministry of Social Security office. The investigation reportedly singled out officials who had been complacent in preparing for the typhoon and punished them with stern warnings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46377\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/\ud53c\ud574\ud604\uc7a5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/\ud53c\ud574\ud604\uc7a5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/\ud53c\ud574\ud604\uc7a5-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/\ud53c\ud574\ud604\uc7a5-629x420.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/\ud53c\ud574\ud604\uc7a5.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodong Sinmun reported on Sept. 6 that Kim Jong Un had visited storm-ravaged areas of South Hamgyong Province. \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, approximately 70 officials were given such warnings, and some of them were even given \u201crevolutionary punishment.\u201d Revolutionary punishment, also referred to as &#8220;revolutionary education,&#8221; typically involves forced labor or ideological education for a set period of time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 40 officials who received lighter [punishments] will be mobilized to work on the construction of houses at Komdok Mine until Oct. 10, while the 39 who received revolutionary [punishment] will be forced to perform repair work at the mine until it is completely repaired by the end of the year,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source told Daily NK that it is rare for revolutionary punishments to be given to so many officials at once. \u201cProvincial officials who were not punished in this investigation are breathing a sigh of relief and trying to be careful,\u201d he noted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many South Hamgyong Province residents reportedly welcomed the investigation and are glad to see the officials punished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLocals believe that cadres are appointed based on money rather than character or ability these days, which means that many officials don\u2019t have what it takes [to do their jobs properly],\u201d the source said. \u201cGiven this situation [massive flooding], people have been critical about the incompetence shown by local officials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ED%83%9C%ED%92%8D%ED%94%BC%ED%95%B4-%EB%B3%B8-%ED%95%A8%EA%B2%BD%EB%82%A8%EB%8F%84%EC%97%90-%EC%A4%91%EC%95%99%EB%8B%B9-%EA%B2%80%EC%97%B4%EA%B2%80%EB%8D%95%EA%B4%91%EC%82%B0-%ED%98%81\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Workers&#8217; Party Central Committee investigation has led to widespread punishment of party, government and judicial officials in South Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cThe Central Committee carried out an investigation into all organizations in South Hamgyong Province, which suffered severe damage in the typhoons due to a lack of advance preparation,\u201d a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":46339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,681],"tags":[745],"class_list":["post-46562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-south-hamgyong-province"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Central Committee investigation leads to punishment for S. 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