North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the fight against the new coronavirus is a ‘crucial state affair for the defence of the people’ that requires maximum discipline, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. – EPA pic, February 29, 2020.
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un warned top party officials of the “serious consequences” of failing to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country, state media reported today. The impoverished nation, with a weak and ill-equipped healthcare system, has closed its borders to prevent the spread of the disease into its territory.
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