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North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, the equivalent of our National Assembly, was held yesterday (12th) two days later than originally scheduled. Hundreds of people meeting without a mask. It seems to be showing off as a corona clean zone, but Chairman Kim Jong-un did not attend.

Ahn Jung-sik, a reporter specializing in North Korea.

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The Supreme People's Assembly, the equivalent of our National Assembly, was held at the Mansudae Shrine in Pyongyang.

[Chosun Central TV: (Chief People's Assembly) was convened at the time when the front breakthrough was vigorously unfolding.]

More than 600 delegates attended, they didn't sit on the street, and they didn't wear masks.

It seems to show off the so-called 'corona zero'.

The North Korean cabinet also reiterated its claim that there were no corona patients.

However, some say that the meeting, which was originally announced on the 10th, was delayed for two days because of a suspicious patient.

[Lee Sang-yong / Daily NK (North Korea Professional Media) Editor-in-Chief: Deputy delegates from the border region of North Korea during the pre-quarantine examination showed a fever of more than 37.4 degrees.]

Indeed, there may be a possibility that a suspect patient did not attend because there were several empty spots found in the central Chosun TV video.

In time, Chairman Kim Jong-un did not attend the meeting.

However, Kim Jong-un's absence could be seen as a result of the last year's constitutional amendment, not because of the corona, but as a representative of the Supreme People's Assembly.

At this meeting, some greetings were carried out, including Foreign Minister Lee Seon-kwon and Vice Chairman Lee Byung-cheol of the military, who were controversial due to the so-called cold noodles.

In addition, this year, the budget increase rate in the health sector was set to increase by 1.6 percentage points from last year.

(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)