Kim Jong-Un wears the mask.
For the first time, the “Supreme Leader” officially sported a surgical mask during a Politburo “crisis” meeting, May 17 sounding the commotion in the face of the unprecedented Covid push to the “hermit kingdom”. ".
And even two superimposed, during a visit to a pharmacy in Pyongyang, according to official television images, betraying the concern of the “Marshal” in fragile health, faced with the spectacular progression of the Omicron variant, which has already made 63 casualties in North Korea.
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This malignant epidemic is the greatest disaster that has befallen our country since its founding
," Kim dramatized, marking a clear shift in the regime's communication, which claimed to have confined the virus to its locked borders since the start of the pandemic. .
This malignant epidemic is the greatest disaster that has befallen our country since its foundation.
Kim Jong-un, "supreme leader" of North Korea
“Serious consequences”
Nearly 2 million North Koreans have been hit with “fever” since the end of April admits Pyongyang, raising fears of a meteoric rise of the variant within a population of 25 million…
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