Kim Jong-un, wearing a mask, visited a pharmacy in Pyongyang.
[Chosun Central TV: What drugs have been supplied since the largest emergency quarantine system was operated, and what are antipyretics and antibiotics?]
A shortage of medicines is occurring amid an explosion of fever patients.
Emergency measures such as releasing national reserve medicines have been taken, but the difficulties of the residents have not been resolved.
General Secretary Kim diagnosed that most pharmacies are in a backward state, stating that they do not even have proper storage places for medicines other than showcases.
This is the part where it turns out that there was a problem in the drug supply system as usual.
General Secretary Kim, who convened an emergency meeting of the Politburo, harshly rebuked his executives.
He strongly criticized the Cabinet-Health Officers who were directly in charge of supplying drugs for not taking a step forward, and the executives in the judicial and prosecutors' offices were not properly monitored or controlled.
[Chosun Central TV: The negligence of the director of the Central Prosecutor's Office, who does not feel any responsibility, no remorse, and does not play any role...
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A special order was even issued by the Party Central Military Commission to mobilize the People's Army to immediately stabilize the supply of medicines.
North Korea announced that 392,000 new cases of fever have been reported, bringing the cumulative number of fever cases to more than 1.2 million.
The cumulative death toll is claimed to be 50.
The Ministry of Unification tried to deliver a notice to North Korea proposing cooperation in the prevention of the corona virus, but North Korea said that it was not willing to accept it.
(Reporter: Kim A-Young, Editing: Jo Moo-Hwan, Producer: D Content Planning Department)