kim john wooten has replaced several of the officials after accusing them of incompetence. officially, the country has reported no cur, inverse cases, despite testing thousands of people and sharing a porous border with china. robert bride is foreign developments from south korea's capital. so he singled out a number of senior officials saying that they had neglected that duty in fighting the pandemic. but we don't know whether this means there has been some kind of outbreak or whether it refers to other measures, such as in the supply of food or economic measures that were meant to be implemented in fighting the pandemic that he was referring to. but certainly it seems to be failings that are enough to get you to lose your job. several, the senior officials, we know, have been fired according to the north korean central news agency. and it comes, of course, is north korea claims. famously, it hasn't had a single case of covey 19. it has virtually sealed itself off from the outside world since the beginning of the pandemic, that in turn has had huge economic consequences. we know that