North Korean defectors in the South have dismissed accusations from Pyongyang that balloons floated over the border carrying medicines, cash and prop
North Korean defectors in the South have dismissed accusations from Pyongyang that balloons floated over the border carrying medicines, cash and propaganda messages are the cause of the Coronavirus pandemic in the North, reported DW. Speaking to DW, the founder of Fighters for a Free North Korea said Pyongyang’s claims are “nonsense,” and merely an effort to deflect blame away from the regime’s incompetence in dealing with the pandemic and a critical shortage of medicines for civilians. North Korean health authorities admitted their first case of Covid 19 on May 12, more than two years after the regime sealed the nation’s borders. Since then, almost 25 million cases have been reported, although only a few patients have officially tested positive for the virus, reported DW.
Pyongyang says 99.98% of its 4.77 million “fever” patients since late April have fully recovered, but because of an apparent lack of testing, it has not published any data for those who tested positive. On July 1, North Korean authorities announced they had found the source of the epidemic, tracing the route of the infection back to the small village of Ipho-ri, some 10 kilometers North of the Demilitarized Zone. North Korean state media attributed the Covid 19 outbreak in the country to “alien things coming by wind,” and landing close to the border with the South. Korean Central News Agency said the source of the outbreak was an 18-year-old soldier and a 5-year-old child who came into contact with objects near the border. State-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper wrote that the soldier and child “came into contact with alien things on a hill close to a barracks and residential quarters in Ipho-ri in April.” The term “alien things” is understood to mean balloons sent over the border from the South, as reported by DW.
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