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, based on how we have reliably set up