North Korea claims Covid arrived on ‘alien things’ near border
It has recorded 4.7 million suspected cases since April, after two years of claiming to be Covid-free. …
Any suggestion that the virus could have entered the country this way, especially as China was dealing with a severe outbreak of the Omicron variant, would have raised difficult and diplomatically sensitive questions, North Korea expert Professor Lim Eul-chul told Reuters news agency.