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At a meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un criticised dozens of officials for drunken misconduct.
ADVERTISEMENTNorth Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has delivered a rare public rebuke to dozens of party officials for misconduct related to a “drinking spree”, according to state media reports. During a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) this week, Kim reportedly admonished officials in Onchon and Usi counties, where factories are being built as part of the “Regional Development 20×10 Policy” that seeks to modernise rural regions. Major ceremonies celebrating the opening of factories producing clothes, food and other items took place in the counties in recent weeks, said Seoul-based news outlet NK News.In Onchon — located on North Korea’s west coast — more than 40 officials committed wrongdoing by participating in a “group drinking spree”, according to state media KCNA.”Never before in the history of our party has there been such a reckless act,” senior WPK officials said in a report quoted by KCNA. “The collective drinking and delinquent behaviour … runs utterly contrary to the party’s line on building discipline.”The nature of the wrongdoing in the southwestern Usi region is unknown, although the report cited by KCNA referred to “anti-people crimes” committed against local citizens.”Those who abuse their power and work in a bureaucratic manner in local areas are attempting to destroy the sacred fortress of unity between the party and the people,” Kim reportedly told the WPK meeting this week. “This is a mega crime which can never be pardoned by our party, our people, our system and our legal power.”Kim said the meeting should act as a wake-up call to WPK officials across the country, and vowed a nationwide crackdown on poor behaviour, according to KCNA. At the meeting, he dissolved the party’s committee in Onchon and the “agricultural inspection organ” in Usi, and punished top officials, the state newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported.The public criticism is unusual because drinking alcohol is common and not frowned upon in North Korea, while such purges are usually carried out behind closed doors.Earlier this week, Kim inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for the country’s nuclear fighting capability to be bolstered, according to state media reports.Kim said doing so is “our invariable noble task” to cope with intensifying challenges posed by “hostile forces”, an apparent reference to the US and South Korea. US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House raises prospects for the resumption of diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang, as Trump and Kim met three times during his first term.
