North Korea orders strict lockdown with first official Covid cases
State media report the country’s first outbreak, but observers believe the virus has long been present. …
Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies, told AFP that North Korea might shelve plans for a nuclear test to focus on battling the outbreak, though if public fears escalated, Mr Kim may go ahead with a test “to divert this fear to another place”.
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