JAKARTA - North Korean (North Korea) President Kim Jong Un fired Deputy Prime Minister Yang Sung Ho. Kim compared it to a goat.
The dismissal was made by Kim in front of Sung Ho when the two opened the operation of the industrial machinery complex on Monday local time.
"Please, Comrade Deputy Prime Minister, resign yourself when you can do it yourself before it's too late," Kim said, according to the government-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), on Tuesday, January 20.
"He [Sung Ho] is not worthy of such an important task," he added.
"Simply put, it's like putting a cart to a goat - an unintentional mistake in our cadre appointment process. After all, it's the cow that pulls the cart, not the goat," Kim continued.
Kim criticized his subordinates who "have been too long accustomed to pessimism, irresponsibility, and passivity."
Those "are not worthy of being entrusted with heavy duties," Kim said, according to KCNA.
Nuclear-armed North Korea faces multiple sanctions over its weapons program. The country has also long struggled with a state-run economy and chronic food shortages.
Kim also tends to react quickly to reprimand North Korean officials who are lazy due to alleged mismanagement of economic policies. However, regarding the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Yang Sung Ho in public like this is very rare.
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