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Continuing with the news of the North Korean Corona virus.

While the situation is serious enough to announce that the cumulative number of fever patients in North Korea has exceeded 1.2 million, Kim Jong-un strongly criticized party officials for the lack of medicines.

South Korean authorities tried to send a notice to North Korea with a proposal for drug aid, but North Korea is not accepting it.



Reporter Kim A-young reports.



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Kim Jong-un made his first external inspection after admitting the outbreak of Corona 19.



The places I looked at even while wearing a double mask were pharmacies in downtown Pyongyang.



Despite the emergency measures to release national reserve medicines, the shortage of medicines is still serious, pointing out supply system and sanitation problems.



[Chosun Central TV: There is no place to store medicines, and the salespeople are not properly equipped with sanitary clothes...

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General Secretary Kim, who convened the Politburo Council for two consecutive days, left all his cadres.



He criticized judicial prosecutors for lack of legal supervision and control.



[Chosun Central TV: The negligence and negligence of the head of the Central Prosecutor's Office, who does not feel any remorse and does not play any role...

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In particular, General Secretary Kim pointed out that "the many negative phenomena that have appeared in the handling and sales of pharmaceuticals have not been corrected," and there are also interpretations that it refers to high-level hoarding or extortion.



In the end, there was even an order to send in the People's Army as a special order of the Party's Central Military Commission.



The number of new fevers reported by North Korea is about 392,000, and the total number announced so far is over 1.2 million.



The Ministry of Unification tried to send a notice in the name of Minister Kwon Young-se to Unification Front Director Kim Young-chol to propose cooperation in quarantine, but North Korea said that there was no response until the closing call of the inter-Korean liaison office at 5 pm.



A high-ranking Ministry of Unification official said he would continue to wait for an answer, saying that he had raised the rank from a working person to a minister.



(Video Edit: Jo Moo-hwan)



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