Pyongyang has used strict border controls and other steps to bring the deadly COVID-19 pandemic under “safe and stable control” in North Korea, the country’s United Nations ambassador Kim Song said on Tuesday.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Kim said “far-sighted leadership” and a “people-first policy” under leader Kim Jong Un had stopped the “inflow and spread” of a coronavirus pathogen that has claimed 1 million lives globally.
Pyongyang has used strict border controls and other steps to bring the deadly COVID-19 pandemic under “safe and stable control” in North Korea, the country’s United Nations ambassador Kim Song said on Tuesday.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Kim said “far-sighted leadership” and a “people-first policy” under leader Kim Jong Un had stopped the “inflow and spread” of a coronavirus pathogen that has claimed 1 million lives globally.
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