North Korea Labor Newspaper “No corona infected person” is reasserted July 30th 16:30
North Korea's "Labor Newspaper" announced on the 30th that "one person has not yet been infected in our country," and insisted that no one was infected with the new coronavirus.
Meanwhile, North Korea's state-owned media reported on June 26th that North Korean defectors returning from South Korea were suspected of being infected, and experts said that this article was based on the results of the North Korean defectors' inspection. It's unclear if it's a thing, and he says it is necessary to determine how the information will come out in the future.
According to the Labor Labor newspaper “Labor Shimbun” dated 30th, “There is no single infected person in our country, but if we take care of it, it will cause an irreversible crisis.” I claimed again that no one was infected.
North Korean state media reportedly suspected that North Korean defectors who had crossed the military border and returned from South Korea to Quezon (Kaesong) in the southwest were infected on the 26th of this month. It is not clear what happened to the test results.
Shunji Hiraiwa, a professor at Nanzan University who is familiar with the situation in North Korea, told NHK in an interview about the series of reports, saying, "North Korea has not officially announced the infection status, including those who have defected from North Korea. There is insufficient information," he said, and it was not clear whether this article was based on the results of North Korean defectors' inspections, and he said that it is necessary to determine how the information will be released in the future.
In addition, regarding the infection situation in North Korea, it is difficult to judge whether it is really zero, but if the virus is in widespread control and it is out of control, I think that I will ask China to cooperate first, but on the surface I can't see any movement," he said, suggesting that the situation is not spreading.