Vice Premier Yang Sung Ho was sacked "on the spot", the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, in a speech in which Kim attacked "irresponsible, rude and incompetent leading officials". "Please, Comrade Vice Premier, resign by yourself when you can do it on your own before it is too late," Kim reportedly said. "Put simply, it was like hitching a cart to a goat -- an accidental mistake in our cadre appointment process," the North Korean leader explained. - Lazy officials -The impoverished North has long prioritised its military and banned nuclear weapons programmes over providing for its people. The North Korean leader is "using public accountability as a shock tactic to warn party officials", he told AFP.
