It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The city of Kaesong has been placed on lockdown, after a person suspected to be infected with the coronavirus “illegally crossed” the border, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced at an emergency anti-epidemic meeting.
Source
Kim Jong-un declares emergency & puts Kaesong City on total lockdown after 1st reported Covid-19 case in North Korea
originally posted by: akiros
a reply to: Onlyyouknow
theres just no way really
If this Is truly the “1st case” then that just goes to show us how very isolated NK is. It makes me sad to think of the horrors and isolation that the citizens have endured.
As North Korea has been suffering under incessant epidemics, people have built ‘mental immunity’ against them, and are able to deal with them without major fear. This is the same for COVID-19,” Lee said.
“Not that they are immune biologically, but the continuous years of epidemics have made them insensitive.”
She cites outbreaks of scabies and measles in 1989, and the recurrence of cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid and typhus since 1994. After 2000, SARS, Ebola, avian influenza and MERS also threatened North Korea.
The reeducation camps for criminals are run by the Ministry of People's Security. There is a fluent passage between common crimes and political crimes.
originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: trollz
If its true they probably already "eliminated" the threat and disposed of the waste in a furnace.
originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: trollz
If its true they probably already "eliminated" the threat and disposed of the waste in a furnace.
Well according to the left, that's how Trump was supposed to stop it here in the US, otherwise he is totally inept.