{"id":66579,"date":"2024-09-05T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-flood-response-reported-executions"},"modified":"2024-09-05T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:57:28","slug":"north-korea-may-have-executed-officials-over-flood-response-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66579","title":{"rendered":"North Korea may have executed officials over flood response, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s intelligence service says it has \u2018detected signs\u2019 Kim Jong-un ordered executions of 20-30 officials<\/p>\n<p>North Korea may have executed multiple officials over damage from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/north-korea-floods-putin-pledges-aid-after-kim-jong-un-rebuffs-seouls-offer-of-assistance\">devastating floods<\/a> in July that wrecked thousands of homes and left up to 1,500 people dead or missing, according to South Korean intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s national intelligence service said it was \u201cclosely monitoring\u201d signs that the regime had carried out the executions after the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, told an emergency meeting of the ruling party\u2019s politburo that he would \u201cstrictly punish\u201d those responsible for the damage, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-flood-response-reported-executions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s intelligence service says it has \u2018detected signs\u2019 Kim Jong-un ordered executions of 20-30 officialsNorth Korea may have executed multiple officials over damage from devastating floods in July that wrecked thousands of homes and left up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,313,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-flooding","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579\/revisions\/66587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}