Kim Jong Un was “extremely furious” at the North Korean cabinet’s lax management of a project he visited as part of a series of on-site inspections in a provincial area, describing the situation as “speechless," the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.

Kim expressed sharp regret after observing poor management at a series of eight units he visited in North Hamgyong Province, the KCNA said, in a rare flurry of negative state media reporting.