North Korea has blamed the outbreak ofCOVID-19 for "aliens", including balloons from South Korea.
According to state media reports, the Epidemic Prevention Center in the Kingdom of Hermitage found a COVID cluster in the town of Ifo near the southeastern border with South Korea, and some of the residents of Ifo with fever were found. He said he had traveled to Pyeongtaek. The
Center is where an 18-year-old soldier and a 5-year-old child come into contact with "aliens" in a town in the eastern county of Mt. Kongo in early April, followed by an Omicron variant.
Called an "emergency order," the Epidemic Prevention Center has ordered authorities to "carefully deal with aliens coming from wind and other climatic phenomena and balloons" along the North-South border. .. Source of information to the end. He also emphasized that anyone who finds "foreign things" should be notified immediately to the authorities so that they can be removed. The
report did not specify what the "alien thing" was. However, blaming those who have flown across national borders could be a way to alleviate public dissatisfaction with the handling of pandemics, while repeating opposition to the proliferation of North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea. Observers say they are highly sexual.
Coronavirus-free has become widely controversial For more than two years after maintaining the claim, North Korea confirmed the outbreak of COVID-19 on May 12, and an unspecified number of people in Pyongyang were diagnosed with the Omicron variant. Stated.
Since then, North Korea has reported about 4.7 million cases of fever out of a population of 26 million, but has identified only a few of them as COVID-19. 73 people are said to have died —very low case fatality rate.
Both numbers are believed to have been manipulated by North Korea to alert people to the virus and prevent political damage to Prime Minister Kim Jong Un.
South Korea's Ministry of Unification responded to North Korea's unfounded allegations by saying that the balloon could not have spread the virus across national borders.
Over the years, activists and North Korean defectors have flown balloons across borders to distribute hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets condemning Kim's rule.
Health officials around the world have been in close contact with the coronavirus. Those who inhale airborne droplets are more likely to occur in a closed, poorly ventilated area than outdoors. The
leaflet campaign was largely abandoned after South Korea's former free government passed legislation criminalizing them, with no public balloon attempts in early April.
Activists on trial for past activities flew a balloon across the border in late April after suspending propaganda leaflets for a year.
Park Sogaku floated the balloon twice in June and switched cargo to COVID-19 relief supplies such as masks and painkillers.
Police are still investigating recent leaflet activity by activists, Cha Duck Chul, deputy spokesman for the South Unification Department, told reporters Friday.
Cha also stated that a consensus between South Korean health officials and World Health Organization experts was virtually impossible to infect by contact with the virus on the surface of the substance.
In a previous suspicious statement about COVID-19, North Korea also argued that the virus could spread through snowfall and migratory birds. The pandemic-related restrictions also included a strict ban on seawater intrusion.
North Korea is furious with the leaflet campaign because it is designed to undermine Kim's authoritarian dominance over a population with little access to external information.
In 2014, North Korea fired on a propaganda balloon flying towards its territory, and South Korea fired, although there were no casualties.
The latest announcement about the North Korean virus spread after North Korea temporarily reopened its northern border with China in January to carry out freight transport, including military parades and other large-scale announcements. It contradicts the outside view that it has surged further after the incident. Pyongyang in April.
However, it was difficult for Pyongyang to point his finger. Probably. China said Lim Ulchul, a professor at the Far East Institute of Gyeongnam University.
"If they conclude that the virus is from China, they North strengthen border quarantine measures to further retreat to trade between South Korea and China. I would have had to do it, "Rim said.
Some outside experts organized these events to increase public loyalty to the dominant Jin dynasty in the face of financial hardship, so the Jin dynasty was the main cause of the outbreak. I blamed it for being there.
With post wire
