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• Pandemics, epidemics (North Korea)

  North Korea: how the COVID outbreak is putting pressure on the regime

  1 June 2022, by BLUTH Christoph

  North Korea’s dictator Kim Jung-Un has given his elite supporters masks and privileged access to healthcare.
  For most of the COVID pandemic, North Korea has taken a different approach to the rest of the world. While other countries locked down and restricted international travel, the North (…)

• Pandemics, epidemics (North Korea)

  COVID has reached North Korea, threatening a humanitarian emergency

  17 May 2022, by HEAD Michael

  The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus.
  While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country (…)

• Pandemics, epidemics (North Korea)

  Coronavirus outbreak: nearly 200 North Korea soldiers ‘die from outbreak government refuses to acknowledge’

  10 March 2020, by Business Insider

  • Pyongyang’s official stance remains that the North is free of the virus, with the cloistered nation stubbornly resisting calls for greater transparency
  • But South Korean media outlets report that hundreds have died in the secretive state, with many thousands more in quarantine
  Hundreds (…)