North Korea will hold two major government meetings, one of them to assess the country’s policy against COVID-19, in the coming weeks, state media reported today.
Pyongyang claims it has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 infection since late July.
The internationally isolated country’s parliament (SPA) will meet on September 7 to discuss legislation on rural development, and organizational issues, according to the official KCNA news agency.
In a separate development, North Korea has decided to hold a national meeting to review emergency measures against the pandemic in early August, “to confirm the new direction” of its policy to deal with COVID-19.
The COVID meeting comes as North Korea announced last week that all of its infected patients had recovered, marking the end of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, after officially admitting an outbreak in mid-May.
The internationally isolated country has never confirmed the number of cases of COVID-19, but has announced that some 4.77 million patients who had the fever have fully recovered, while 74 have died since the end of April.
North Korea’s parliament meets infrequently and is usually the official mechanism for approving the decisions of the powerful Workers’ Party, whose members form its vast majority.
The decision to convene the plenary session of the parliament was made yesterday, Sunday, during the plenary meeting of the SPA standing committee, KCNA reported.
During the weekend meeting, participants adopted a drug law to set up a “strict system” to promote public health, among other issues.
Other issues raised included the amendment of aerospace development legislation to “further legalize activities” in the aforementioned field, but also the adoption of a “self-defense law” to organize what is called a “system of self-defense of all people” for the protection of the lives and property of North Koreans, KCNA reported, without giving further details.
Space launches have long been a sensitive issue on the Korean Peninsula, where North Korea faces international sanctions over its ballistic missile program.
In March, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for expanding its space launch facility to further Pyongyang’s space ambitions after South Korea and the US accused it of testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile under the cover of of the development of its space program.
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