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N. Korea's Kim sacks vice premier over irresponsibility ahead of key party congress
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sacked a vice premier of the North's cabinet over the official's irresponsibility in modernizing a machinery plant, state media reported Tuesday, in a rare public dismissal ahead of a key party congress.
Kim dismissed Vice Premier Yang Sung-ho "on the spot," while inspecting the Ryongsong Machine Complex modernization project, because the project "encountered difficulties and incurred not a little amount of economic loss, experiencing unnecessary man-made confusions," according to the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Kim said the North's ruling party "has come to a clear-cut determination that the present economic guidance forces can hardly guide the work of readjusting the country's industry as a whole and upgrading it technologically and that
breaking with old practices of pinning hope on those who have too long been accustomed to defeatism, irresponsibility and passiveness will be a new starting point for future pioneering and development," according to the KCNA report.
The Ryongsong Machine Complex project was promoted under Kim's plan to advance the country's machine-building industry at the ruling party's eighth party congress, the KCNA said.
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