Kim Jong Un says North facing ‘great crisis’ in pandemic fight

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed senior officials for causing a “great crisis” in the pandemic fight by mismanaging coronavirus prevention measures, state media reported Wednesday.

Kim made the comments at a ruling party politburo meeting where an unspecified member of the powerful five-member presidium was reportedly recalled. “Senior officials in charge of important state affairs neglected the implementation of the important decisions of the party on taking organizational, institutional, material, scientific and technological measures as required by the prolonged state emergency epidemic prevention campaign,” Kim said at the meeting, according to North’s official Korean Central News Agency.