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These bathtubs are dirty! Kim’s holiday camp rant

- Mail Foreign Service

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un has berated officials during inspection­s of a factory, power station and holiday camp.

‘Field guidance’ visits by the leader are the mainstay of the North’s state media output, with Kim regularly shown giving ‘on-the-spot guidance’ to attentive officials, their notebooks in hand.

But on the latest visit, to North Hamgyong province’s Orangchon power station, which is only 70 per cent complete after delays, Kim was ‘so appalled as to be left speechless’, according to the North’s news agency KCNA.

‘He reprimande­d the leading officials of the Cabinet for leaving the project to the province only and not paying attention to it,’ it said, and he ordered it must be completed by October next year. Kim was also

 ??  ?? A rare smile: Kim Jong-un on the tour furious over dirty hot spring bathtubs at the Onpho holiday camp – calling them ‘worse than fish tanks’. Professor Yang Moo-jin, of the University of North Korean Studies in the South, said Kim was sending a domestic and external signal that the North was focusing on the economy after his Singapore summit with Donald Trump.
A rare smile: Kim Jong-un on the tour furious over dirty hot spring bathtubs at the Onpho holiday camp – calling them ‘worse than fish tanks’. Professor Yang Moo-jin, of the University of North Korean Studies in the South, said Kim was sending a domestic and external signal that the North was focusing on the economy after his Singapore summit with Donald Trump.

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