A State Commission of Quality Management staff member in protective gear disinfects a ground transportation area at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 1, 2020.
Daily Beast: North Korea’s Secret Coronavirus Crisis is Crazy Scary
Kim Jong Un canceled a big parade with no real explanation just as the South Korean press reports coronavirus has hit North Korea hard and could explode there.
SEOUL–North Korea’s not saying a word about deaths or illnesses from the coronavirus, but the disease reportedly has spread across the border from China and is taking a toll in a country with a dismal health care system and scant resources for fighting off the deadly bug.
One sure sign of the regime’s fears is that it failed to stage a parade in central Pyongyang on Saturday, the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the country’s armed forces. Last year, Kim Jong Un himself presided over the procession that displayed the North’s latest missiles and other fearsome hardware along with goose-stepping soldiers in serried ranks.
This year, nothing about the nation’s nuclear warheads, much less the “new strategic weapon” that Kim has vowed to unveil. Rodong Sinmum, the newspaper of the ruling Workers’ Party, merely cited the armed forces’ supposed success combating “severe and dangerous difficulties”—and said nothing at all about the parade.
But reports have filtered out about Kim’s subjects falling prey to coronavirus despite the country’s decision to seal its 880-mile border with China, most of it along the Yalu River into the Yellow Sea to the west, and its 11-mile border with Russia where the Tumen River flows into the Pacific.
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N. Korea on highest alert to protect Pyongyang from coronavirus -- Yonhap News Agency
North Korea 'disposing of bodies' in new coronavirus panic as public parade cancelled -- Daily Star
N. Korea on highest alert to protect Pyongyang from coronavirus -- Inquirer.net/Korea Herald
UN Ready to Grant Exemption for Virus Aid for North Korea -- VOA
