Kim Yo-jong says regime leader had a ‘high fever’, a byword for coronavirus in the country, as it claims victory over the virus
flown over the border in balloons from South Korea, and warned of “deadly” retaliation if Seoul failed to prevent activists from sending the leaflets.
North Korea, whose poor health infrastructure was badly prepared to cope with a major outbreak, insisted that it hadKim Jong-un and his sister Kim Yo-jong, at a meeting in 2018. Kim Yo-jong blamed the Covid outbreak on South Korea sending leaflets across the border.Since May this year, it has reported about 4.8m cases of “fever” among its population of 26 million but identified only a fraction of them as Covid, possibly to avoid creating public alarm and because of a lack of testing kits.
In a speech reportedly laden with profanities, Kim Yo-jong repeated unfounded claims that the virus had entered the country via objects sent from South Korea, claiming the outbreak was a “hysteric farce” started by the South in an attempt to raise cross-border tensions.
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