I go back home. For everyone. The city of Pyongyang, the capital of North Koreais in lockdown. The reason was not specified. However, it is difficult not to think of the coronavirus in the face of that generic “national problem” indicated by the North Korean authorities.
Covid has not officially arrived in North Korea and the country of Kim refused foreign aid for vaccines. However, the North Korean lockdown seems very similar to that done in Chinese cities, in terms of rigidity and timing.
There were immediate long lines at bus stops and many residents returned to the city. According to observers from South Korea, however, the farmers remained. They are practically the only ones to give news from a country that, with the pandemic, remained even more isolated. The few diplomatic representations left it when the borders with China and Russia were closed, precisely to avoid the spread of the virus.
The regime in these two years has not reported any cases of contagion, did not initiate a vaccination campaign. He just chose to keep the borders even more closed and last week the railway line with China was closed. The Pyongyang newspaper sent to hygiene and the use of masks to keep away the virus that officially never arrived here.
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Source: Vanity Fair
