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Chad O'Carroll
Chad O'Carroll has written on North Korea since 2010 and writes between London and Seoul.
Three lookout points northeast of Seoul all revealed normal levels of activity on the North Korean side of the border, photos taken by NK News showed on Monday, despite a COVID-19 outbreak leading to a nationwide lockdown.
Dozens of people could be seen working on apparent rice fields, walking between buildings and working with animals, close-up photos from South Korea’s Ganghwa and Gyodong islands near the inter-Korean border showed. That’s despite hundreds of thousands of people developing “fever” symptoms between Saturday and Sunday alone. State media confirmed North Korea’s first COVID-19 outbreak last week.