Rodong Sinmun | North Korean disinfection workers at a medicine factory (Jan. 7, 2022)
Measures to prevent COVID-19 should become more “advanced” and not solely rely on regulations anymore, North Korea’s party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun stated on Monday, raising the possibility that Pyongyang may reevaluate certain aspects of its two-year-long pandemic restrictions.
The year-end party plenum meeting in December also touched on the country’s anti-COVID directions in the new year, but neither the meeting nor Monday’s newspaper report clarified details about what the future of these policies might be.
“We have to ceaselessly innovate our emergency anti-epidemic work,” the article said on Monday. “In other words
Measures to prevent COVID-19 should become more “advanced” and not solely rely on regulations anymore, North Korea’s party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun stated on Monday, raising the possibility that Pyongyang may reevaluate certain aspects of its two-year-long pandemic restrictions.
The year-end party plenum meeting in December also touched on the country’s anti-COVID directions in the new year, but neither the meeting nor Monday’s newspaper report clarified details about what the future of these policies might be.
Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean and DPRK-related foreign, defense and humanitarian affairs, and has covered the 2022 ROK Presidential election on the ground. Prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency's Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim