[Viral Footage] Typhoon Hits North Korea: Kim Jong-Un Decides to Fire Party Chief Over Failure to Prepare

Kim Jong-Un recently dismissed a particular provincial party chief while he was touring the coastal areas recently hit by a typhoon. Reports say that the cause of the dismissal was for the officials failing to follow orders which merited them to be "gravely punished."

North Korea's very own state-run television called the KRT recently carried footage of the whole despot convening a recent meeting with certain officials while walking down the recent typhoon-hit area.

While Kim Jong-Un surveyed the damaged area that was caused by a certain typhoon that recently battered the coastal areas just last week. This was the tenth typhoon of the current season and was seen swirling around in the East China Sea.

The official report

The Korean Central News Agency or otherwise known as KCNA confirmed that there were over 1,000 houses that were destroyed over the coastal areas of both the North and South Hamgyong provinces. The reports also stated that both farmlands, as well as a number of public buildings, had also been inundated.

During the meeting, he actually dismissed the known chairman of the current South HAmyong provincial party committee and also proceeded to appoint a replacement chairman.

North Korea's own ruling party had called for the punishment of those officials whose failures to follow certain orders led to the "dozens of casualties" that happened during the typhoons. This was reported by the country's very own official party newspaper on Saturday.

In separate matters, Kim Jong-Un also sent an open letter to the party members in the whole capital noting that this current year has actually witnessed certain "uncommon difficulties" that happened due to the whole protracted worldwide crisis on public health.

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The remedy to the situation

The statement also added that the known Party Central Committee also decided to dispatch a group of 12,000 party members from the known Pyongyang over to the devastated typhoon-hit areas in order for them to help the communities slowly recover.

North Korea has also been putting up certain "practical measure" in order to minimize the total damage from the recent tenth typhoon of the current season by also informing people of hot-spot locations of shelters and the typhoon paths as well as a proper protocol on how to behave, according to KCNA.

This isolated Asian country has actually been grappling with certain torrential rains, typhoons, and also floods in one of the wettest rainy seasons to ever happen. The Typhoon Maysak recently smashed into the North Korean peninsula on Thursday.

In South Korea, however, the damage left at least 2 people dead along with about thousands temporarily without proper electricity. The Typhoon Haishen is also expected to hit South Korea's very own southern tip on Monday, according to a report by the South Korean's Meteorological Administration.

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Written by Urian Buenconsejo