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North Korea’s Kim says there are no cases of coronavirus in his country
Pyongyang closed its borders in January to try to protect itself from the disease and regularly said it had no cases.
This undated image released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on September 2, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang. Image: AFP.
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told an audience at a military parade on Saturday that he was grateful that “not a single person” in the North has contracted the coronavirus that has swept the world since it emerged in neighboring China.
Pyongyang closed its borders in January to try to protect itself from the disease and regularly said it had no cases, but state media had backed away from such explicit statements in recent months, emphasizing instead the importance of prevention efforts.
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