March 28, 2024
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North Korea blasts South’s handling of MERS

Recent hacking allegations by South Korean media to distract from 'crime' of causing outbreak, state organ says

North Korea, thus far relatively quiet about South Korea’s Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, on Monday criticized Seoul’s handling of the illness.

The context for the broadside – originating from the Secretariat of the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea, as quoted by the state-run Korean Central News Agency – was a Saturday report by Seoul’s Korean Broadcasting System, the national broadcaster of South Korea.

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