North Koreans engaged in apparent rice-planting activities in North Hwanghae province, May 16, 2022 | Image: NK News
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
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.
Chad O'Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group's CEO, O'Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.