Reporter : Zhong Jingming
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/19/a102803780.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : The picture shows North Korean soldiers in Pyongyang. (Kim Won Jin / AFP via Getty Images)
As the COVID-19 (covid, in short) pandemic rages, North Korean Communist officials still claim "zero diagnosis" of the disease, and external doubts of the claim continue. South Korean media quoted a source who disclosed that three people in North Korea have recently been shot dead for violating anti-epidemic measures, one of whom was confirmed. Earlier news said that at least 180 North Korean soldiers had died of the infection.
South Korea's "East Asia Daily" quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that three people in North Korea have recently been shot dead due to covid. One of them was a confirmed person who served as a security instructor at the dock of a trading company specializing in smuggling anthracite and minerals. He was diagnosed with covid on 14 February 2020.
According to reports, North Korea ordered a border blockade as early as 22 January 2020, the earliest country to impose the nation lock down, but the instructor developed suspected symptoms 23 days later, sparking official suspicion, and after interrogation he found that he had come into contact with Chinese people during his smuggling activities.
Kim Jong-un ordered in early February that all those who violated the covid epidemic prevention regulations will be dealt with under North Korea military law. The instructor was executed on 16 February 2020.
Although the North Koreans closed their borders for the first time after the epidemic broke out, because of frequent exchanges with China, the outside world generally suspected that its declared "zero diagnosis" was deliberately an act of covering-up the epidemic.
Kim Sin Gon, a professor of medicine at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, said that North Koreans have been chronically malnourished and are more likely to become infected with the CCP virus*.
Robert Abrams, commander of the U.S. Army in South Korea, recently pointed out that the North Korean military had been closed for at least 30 days and daily training had only resumed recently. So the possibility of infection was quite high.
Earlier Korean media disclosed that North Korea had segregated at least 7,000 people. North Korean officials said that the government had isolated thousands of people and "successfully prevented the virus from invading." At present, more than 5,400 people have been determined to have been discharged from hospitals without being infected, but official media have not mentioned the situation of those who have not been discharged.
A Korean media run by a North Korean defector, DailyNK, quoted a source in the North Korean military who disclosed that as early as March, at least 180 people had died of the infection in the North Korean army near the China-DPRK border. 3,700 people have been forcibly isolated.
[*NTDTV Editor's note: In order to fight back against the China Communist Party (CCP)'s smearing, US President Trump called the Wuhan virus a "Chinese virus." NTD thinks it is more accurate to call it "the CCP virus". This virus came from China under the CCP's rule. Because the CCP covered up the epidemic, the virus spread to the world. In order to correct the geographic and nationality names in viruses on behalf of the Chinese, the CCP and China should be distinguished from each other. ]
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/19/a102803780.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : The picture shows North Korean soldiers in Pyongyang. (Kim Won Jin / AFP via Getty Images)
As the COVID-19 (covid, in short) pandemic rages, North Korean Communist officials still claim "zero diagnosis" of the disease, and external doubts of the claim continue. South Korean media quoted a source who disclosed that three people in North Korea have recently been shot dead for violating anti-epidemic measures, one of whom was confirmed. Earlier news said that at least 180 North Korean soldiers had died of the infection.
South Korea's "East Asia Daily" quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that three people in North Korea have recently been shot dead due to covid. One of them was a confirmed person who served as a security instructor at the dock of a trading company specializing in smuggling anthracite and minerals. He was diagnosed with covid on 14 February 2020.
According to reports, North Korea ordered a border blockade as early as 22 January 2020, the earliest country to impose the nation lock down, but the instructor developed suspected symptoms 23 days later, sparking official suspicion, and after interrogation he found that he had come into contact with Chinese people during his smuggling activities.
Kim Jong-un ordered in early February that all those who violated the covid epidemic prevention regulations will be dealt with under North Korea military law. The instructor was executed on 16 February 2020.
Although the North Koreans closed their borders for the first time after the epidemic broke out, because of frequent exchanges with China, the outside world generally suspected that its declared "zero diagnosis" was deliberately an act of covering-up the epidemic.
Kim Sin Gon, a professor of medicine at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, said that North Koreans have been chronically malnourished and are more likely to become infected with the CCP virus*.
Robert Abrams, commander of the U.S. Army in South Korea, recently pointed out that the North Korean military had been closed for at least 30 days and daily training had only resumed recently. So the possibility of infection was quite high.
Earlier Korean media disclosed that North Korea had segregated at least 7,000 people. North Korean officials said that the government had isolated thousands of people and "successfully prevented the virus from invading." At present, more than 5,400 people have been determined to have been discharged from hospitals without being infected, but official media have not mentioned the situation of those who have not been discharged.
A Korean media run by a North Korean defector, DailyNK, quoted a source in the North Korean military who disclosed that as early as March, at least 180 people had died of the infection in the North Korean army near the China-DPRK border. 3,700 people have been forcibly isolated.
[*NTDTV Editor's note: In order to fight back against the China Communist Party (CCP)'s smearing, US President Trump called the Wuhan virus a "Chinese virus." NTD thinks it is more accurate to call it "the CCP virus". This virus came from China under the CCP's rule. Because the CCP covered up the epidemic, the virus spread to the world. In order to correct the geographic and nationality names in viruses on behalf of the Chinese, the CCP and China should be distinguished from each other. ]
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