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Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung covers U.S., Chinese, and Japanese politics and national security in relation to North Korea. She previously worked at Coda Story covering disinformation and technology with a focus on the East Asia.
A provincial military commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) held an emergency meeting earlier this week to discuss countermeasures for destructive flooding in the region, according to state media on Sunday, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered instructions for disaster relief apparently without visiting the area.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the South Hamgyong Provincial Military Commission convened the meeting on Thursday, the same day that state television aired footage of flooding in the province that it said had destroyed over 1,000 homes.