COVID-19 and Glorious Leader Kims response

[Manonthestreet]

With most of the population undernourished the reapers best chance of an apocalypse?
N. Korea orders major organizations to fend for themselves - Daily NK
North Korea’s ration system has drastically weakened due to the country’s economic troubles, but the country’s elite, military-run factories, and other key institutions have continued to receive supplies from the government up until this point.

Now, however, the shutdown of the Sino-North Korean border due to the COVID-19 outbreak along with the impact of international sanctions appear to have created difficulties for the central government to hand out rations to these organizations.

 

[JoeMoma]

Seems that the COVID-19 virus is sanctioning the world. N. Korea to be hit extra hard.

Wonder what the death rate in NK will be due to the virus.

 

[playtime]

i'm sure the NK piglet has stockpiles of everything needed for his own personal use. given how the general population is sickley on their best day, they will not fair well thru this crisis.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Now, however, the shutdown of the Sino-North Korean border due to the COVID-19 outbreak along with the impact of international sanctions appear to have created difficulties for the central government to hand out rations to these organizations.

North Korea was the first country to close the border to Chinese travellers in January, when there were some signs of a major outbreak in Wuhan. As a result, there is no confirmed case in North Korea, which is immune from the global pandemic. Being a hermit state is an advantage in this situation and we don't have to worry about helping North Korea. North Korea further quarantined 3,650 people who have travelled overseas in recent months along with foreigners who may carry the virus as a precaution.

Pyongyang has imposed strict restrictions and closed its borders to try to prevent an outbreak - and insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19. Around 3,650 people quarantined in Kangwon and Chagang provinces were released as of Thursday, North Korea's state radio reported according to Yonhap news agency.

It follows official KCNA news agency stating on Friday 221 out of 380 foreigners who were under "strict medical monitoring" had been discharged from isolation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned last month of "serious consequences" if the virus reaches his country, which has banned tourists and suspended international trains and flights.

North Korea releases 3,600 quarantined over COVID-19: Reports

 

[Manonthestreet]

Now, however, the shutdown of the Sino-North Korean border due to the COVID-19 outbreak along with the impact of international sanctions appear to have created difficulties for the central government to hand out rations to these organizations.

North Korea was the first country to close the border to Chinese travellers in January, when there were some signs of a major outbreak in Wuhan. As a result, there is no confirmed case in North Korea, which is immune from the global pandemic. Being a hermit state is an advantage in this situation and we don't have to worry about helping North Korea. North Korea further quarantined 3,650 people who have travelled overseas in recent months along with foreigners who may carry the virus as a precaution.

Pyongyang has imposed strict restrictions and closed its borders to try to prevent an outbreak - and insists it has not had a single case of COVID-19. Around 3,650 people quarantined in Kangwon and Chagang provinces were released as of Thursday, North Korea's state radio reported according to Yonhap news agency.

It follows official KCNA news agency stating on Friday 221 out of 380 foreigners who were under "strict medical monitoring" had been discharged from isolation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned last month of "serious consequences" if the virus reaches his country, which has banned tourists and suspended international trains and flights.

North Korea releases 3,600 quarantined over COVID-19: Reports

Coronavirus Death In North Korea Revealed, Reports Of No COVID-19 'Can't Be Trusted'
A total of 18 people have been placed in quarantine at the No. 3 Hospital in Pyongyang, reports Daily NK, an online newspaper with sources in North Korea but published in South Korea. Daily NK reported a woman in Pyongyang died from COVID-19 in January. This woman in her 50s suffered from a fever and coughing in late January and suddenly died on Jan. 27, said a high-level source in North Korea recently. The source said the authorities submitted documents stating she died of acute pneumonia.

The woman was quarantined because public health authorities believed she might have been infected with COVID-19. Her body was cremated.

"If she had died from regular pneumonia, her family would have taken care of the cremation. Her family thinks that she was cremated by the authorities because of a coronavirus infection," the source told Daily NK.

 

[Manonthestreet]

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