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Covid-19 in North Korea: the health system “terribly lacks resources”

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In North Korea, the army has been deployed to distribute drugs against Covid-19 © STR / AFP

By: Vincent Souriau

Two and a half years after the start of the pandemic, North Korea is finally breaking its silence: the North Korean regime has just recognized that it too is facing a galloping spread of the virus on its territory, with to date 2 million cases have been identified, in a country lacking a subsistence minimum and which has refused the vaccines offered by the Covax system of the UN.

State of play with British expert Aidan Foster-Carter, expert on the Korean peninsula at the University of Leeds.

  • North Korea

  • Coronavirus

  • Health and medicine