North Korean Kim Jong Un declared victory in the battle against Covid-19 on Thursday, with the leader’s sister revealing he had a fever and vowing “deadly retaliation” against South Korea, which he blames for causing it. the outbreak.
Kim ordered the end of the maximum measures imposed against the epidemic in May, adding that North Korea must maintain a “strong anti-epidemic barrier and intensify this work until the end of the global health crisis”, according to a report carried by the news agency. state KCNA.
North Korea has never reported how many people have been infected with Covid-19, apparently without testing supplies. Instead, it reported daily numbers of fever patients, which totaled about 4.77 million, but it has not reported new cases since July 29.
Kim’s sister Kim Yo Jong said the leader himself suffered from fever symptoms, according to KCNA, indicating for the first time that he may have been infected with the virus.
“Even though he was seriously ill with a high fever, he could not lie down for a moment thinking about the people he had to take care of until the end in the face of the anti-epidemic war,” she said at a meeting on Wednesday (10) to review the measures of the country.
She did not detail Kim’s health, but blamed South Korean pamphlets found near the border for causing the outbreak.
For decades, North Korean defectors and activists in the South have sent balloons with anti-Pyongyang pamphlets to the North, along with food, medicine, money and other items.
Kim Yo Jong has criticized the new Seoul government of President Yoon Suk-yeol for trying to lift the 2020 ban on these campaigns, calling it an “invariable primary enemy”.
“We can no longer ignore the nonstop flow of garbage from South Korea,” she said, threatening to “eliminate” the Seoul authorities. “Our countermeasure must be deadly retaliation.”
South Korea’s Unification Ministry regretted North Korea’s claim that letters from defectors were responsible for the Covid outbreak and the threats made by Pyongyang, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
Source: CNN Brasil
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