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This week, Hurricane Maysak has wreaked havoc on the Korean Peninsula. In addition to the flooding, some 2,200 people in South Korea, where the storm first struck, are said to have been evacuated. Another 120,000 households are said to have lost power and a woman is also said to have died. At the same time, the country was forced to cancel 300 flights.
North Korea was also hit hard by Maysak with heavy rains and flooding as a result. The country’s state media now claim that officials should be punished:
Local “irresponsible” officials are held guilty of “a serious incident with dozens of deaths,” writes the Rodong Sinmun newspaper. Authorities did not “immediately organize the mapping and evacuation of the high-risk homes,” despite the country’s leader Kim Jong-Un giving orders to do so, he says.
“It has been decided that the penalties will be severe and that those responsible for the deaths will be punished politically, administratively and legally,” the newspaper announced.
Japan cancels search
At the same time, the Japanese Coast Guard reports that the search for the Gulf Livestock 1 ship, which on Wednesday sent emergency signals during the Maysak advance, is suspended. The reason is claimed to be that the new Typhoon Haishen, which achieves the highest Japanese storm rating, has already reached southern Japan.
A Filipino man who was aboard the Gulf Livestock 1 and drifting alone on an inflatable life raft could be rescued Friday. A few hours earlier, another man was found in the nearby water, but was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
On Wednesday, a survivor said the ship turned over and sank as a result of an engine that died.
Gulf Livestock 1 left Napier in New Zealand on August 14 with 39 Filipinos, two New Zealanders, two Australians and 5,800 cows on board.
