The vaccination included members of his family and senior officials

Sources: North Korea's leader receives Chinese vaccine against "Corona"

North Korea's leader chairs a meeting of his party "Pyongyang".

Reuters

An American analyst, citing two unnamed Japanese intelligence sources, said that China had provided an experimental vaccine against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family, and an expert on North Korean affairs at the National Interest Research Center in Washington said, Harry Kazianis, the Kim family, and several senior North Korean officials have received the vaccine.

He explained that it was not clear the identity of the company that provided the vaccine to the Kim family, adding that Kim Jong Un, and a number of other senior officials from his family, and from the leadership network, were vaccinated against the Corona virus during the past two or three weeks, using a possible vaccine provided by the Chinese government.

For his part, the American medical expert, Peter J. Hotiz, said that no less than three Chinese companies are working on developing a vaccine against the Corona virus, namely: "Sinovac Biotech", "Can Sino Bayou" and "Sinopharm Group."

"Sinopharma" said that nearly a million people in China have used its possible vaccine.

North Korea did not confirm any cases of coronavirus infection, but South Korean intelligence said that an outbreak could not be ruled out, given the trade and human exchange between it and China, where the epidemic first appeared, before closing the borders in late January.

Last month, Microsoft said that two North Korean hacking groups attempted to infiltrate a network of companies developing the vaccine in several countries, without specifying the target companies.

Sources told «Reuters» that among these companies is the British «AstraZeneca».

South Korean intelligence reported last week that it had thwarted attempts by North Korea to infiltrate vaccine manufacturers in South Korea.

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