"The North Korean leader fired Yang on the spot, KCNA said, adding that Kim considered the vice premier as unfit to be entrusted with heavy duties. Put simply, it was like hitching a cart to a goat an accidental mistake in our cadre appointment process, Kim was quoted in the news report as saying. After all, it is an ox that pulls a cart, not a goat, he added."
"Yang, a former machinery industry minister promoted to vice premier in charge of the machinery sector, is also an alternate member of the party's leadership council, according to South Korea's state news agency Yonhap. Yang's replacement has not been announced. The removal comes as North Korea's ruling Workers' Party gears up for its Ninth Party Congress, which is expected to convene soon to set out major policy goals for the country."
Kim Jong Un dismissed Vice Premier Yang Sung-ho during the inauguration of the first stage of a modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex. Kim described the cadre appointment as like "hitching a cart to a goat," saying an ox, not a goat, should pull a cart. Yang previously served as machinery industry minister and was an alternate member of the party leadership council. Yang's replacement has not been announced. The removal coincides with preparations for the Ninth Party Congress. Kim blamed irresponsible, rude and incompetent economic guidance officials for delays in the project's first-stage modernization and criticized party members for causing difficulties.
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