SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned "incompetent" apparatchiks, state media said Tuesday (Jan 20). Touring the opening of an industrial machinery complex, Kim blasted officials whom he blamed for delays in the project, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. "Owing to the irresponsible, rude and incompetent economic guidance officials, the first-stage modernisation project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex