North Korea’s ruling party states today that the country has faced various obstacles due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. However, it doesn’t confirm any new cases. Read on to catch the full news! 

North Korea says the country remains coronavirus free!

Amid the pandemic outbreak, many countries have been affected in terms of human and economy. Sharing borders with two most infected nations, North Korea has finally given updates on its current situation. In details, the coronavirus pandemic has created hindrances for its “economic construction” efforts. However, the state media shared that the country “has been maintaining a very stable anti-epidemic situation”. 

Before, they stated that all foreign diplomats in Pyongyang had quarantined for one month. There was also limited population movements to void the spreading of the virus. In a recent meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on Saturday, they announced a joint resolution between North and South Korean. 

Notably, this will help to bring “more thorough state measures for protecting life and safety of people from the great worldwide epidemic disease”. There was also many praised given to the reclusive nation’ for its “strict, top-class, emergency anti-epidemic measures”. Additionally, they also apply “consistency and compulsoriness in the nationwide protective measures”. On the contrary, various foreign experts raised the questions on the country’s report of being coronavirus-free. In details, they claimed North Korea’s neighbouring countries already reported a high number of cases. Furthermore, there is still the problem that country trades via smuggling goods across borders.

Attendance

Based on various pictures from the event, none of the committee members that attended the meeting was wearing masks, including Mr Kim. Moreover, they were not sitting unusually far apart from each other. Besides, other reports mentioned the election of Mr Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ruling party.