PYONGYANG – Young children sit on the laps of medical staff, watching intently as a briefing describes the dangers of Ebola. Foreigners and citizens arriving at the capital’s airport are held in quarantine for weeks. Tourists are banned outright.
The world’s most draconian measures against the disease have been imposed not in the worst-affected west African countries, nor their neighbors, but in North Korea, thousands of miles from the outbreak.
PYONGYANG – Young children sit on the laps of medical staff, watching intently as a briefing describes the dangers of Ebola. Foreigners and citizens arriving at the capital’s airport are held in quarantine for weeks. Tourists are banned outright.
The world’s most draconian measures against the disease have been imposed not in the worst-affected west African countries, nor their neighbors, but in North Korea, thousands of miles from the outbreak.
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