March 28, 2024
COVID-19

COVID-19 brought under ‘safe and stable’ control: North Korean Ambassador

DPRK Amb. to UN Kim Song makes no mention of United States during speech

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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