Deadly Floods Hit North Korea So Kim Jong Un Responded By Executing 30 Government Officials

The Independent - North Korea reportedly executed 30 officials last month for their alleged failure to mitigate the devastation caused by floods and landslides that killed over 4,000 people.

The officials were charged with corruption and dereliction of duty, South Korean outlet TV Chosun reported.

The catastrophic flooding hit the Chagang province in July and also displaced more than 15,000 people.

Kim Jong Un, a leader who gets things done. When a freak weather incident decimates his entire country, killing 4,000 people and displacing another 15,000, somebody is going to pay. Even thought there's a less than zero percentage chance had any of those 30 officials came to Mr. Un's office ahead of time and said, "Excuse me Supreme Leader, but we need 10,000,000,000 Won for infrastructure, or else we risk losing thousands of lives the next time a typhoon comes", that he would have forked over any money whatsoever. There's probably a greater chance they would have been executed right then and there for requesting money at all.

Or if North Korea's weather official had said, "Supreme Leader, sir. There's 30-days of torrential rains on the horizon. We need to issue an order of evacuation immediately." That Kim Jong Un would have just let his people take a sabbatical from their job as slave to hang out in China for a couple months. 

But all of that is irrelevant. Kim Jong Un, as a leader who gets things done, after taking a fat boat ride through the streets of North Korea to witness the flood damage first hand, he knew that he had to act. And as the leader of a not-at-all-free nation, if you don't know what actual constructive steps you can take in order to remedy a situation, your only choice is to start killing officials.

"Don't worry my people. I know most of your families are all dead, and your homes have been permanently destroyed due to rain, but rest assured I've murdered 30 members of our fake government + the guy who drove the boat and made me bump my head into a tree. So you won't have to worry about rain anymore."

I wonder what the next people in line to become North Korean "officials" think when something like this happens. Is there a part of them that is excited for the new opportunity? Or is it strictly fear/time to start saying goodbye to your loved ones because you know you're one minor inconvenience that is entirely out of your control away from being publicly hung in the town square. 

Thoughts & prayers to the people of North Korea. I genuinely feel for them. They didn't ask to be born there.