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SEOUL — North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South
North Korea claimed that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea
SEOUL — North Korea claimed on Friday that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching “alien things” near the border with South Korea,…
The North`s first admission of a COVID outbreak came months after it eased border lockdowns enforced since early in 2020 to resume freight train operations with China. But it would have been difficult for Pyongyang to point fingers at China, said Lim Eul-chul, a professor at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University.
South Korea's unification ministry, handling inter-Korean affairs, said there was "no possibility" of the virus entering the North through leaflets sent across the border