![]() ![]() The North’s government has also long considered public reports on infectious disease – or, for that matter, anything that could hurt the ruling elite – matters of state secrecy. North Korea, which has what experts call a horrendous medical infrastructure in the best of times, shares a porous, nearly 900-mile border with China, where the disease originated and has since rapidly spread around the world. That image of world-defying impregnability, however, may belie a brewing disaster. ![]() TOKYO – In these days of infection and fear, a recent propaganda photo sums up the image North Korea wants to show the world, as well as its people: Soldiers with black surgical masks surround leader Kim Jong Un, ensconced in a leather overcoat and without a mask as he oversees a defiant military drill.Īs a new and frightening virus closes in around it, North Korea presents itself as a fortress, tightening its borders as cadres of health officials stage a monumental disinfection and monitoring program.
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