Given the speed of the spread, it is all but certain that North Korea is being ravaged by an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron variant
of covid-19, on May 8th, the official case count had risen to 168 infections and one death. That would be a creditable feat of containment were it not for the nearly 1.5m cases of “fever”, responsible for another 56 deaths, that the country has also reported.
On May 13th Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s president, offered vaccines and other medical supplies. In a budget speech a few days later he repeated that his country “will not spare any necessary support” to help its neighbour. But the North has so far demurred. South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said it had received no response to a fax offering help.
There are signs that Mr Kim may, however, be willing to accept help from China. South Korean media outlets have reported that North Korea wants to begin talks with its patron. China’s foreign ministry says the country is “ready to go all out” to help contain the virus., a South Korean outlet, reported that North Korea dispatched three planes to retrieve medical supplies from China.
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