North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned “incompetent” apparatchiks for delays in the opening of an important factory, state media said Tuesday.

Nuclear-armed North Korea, which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programs, has long struggled with its moribund state-managed economy and chronic food shortages.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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