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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends a national meeting on measures against the coronavirus disease in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated photo released on August 10, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency . - REUTERSPIX: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un declared victory in the battle against COVID-19 on Thursday, with the leader’s sister revealing he had suffered from fever and vowing “deadly retaliation” against South Korea which it blames for causing the outbreak.
Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, said the young leader himself had suffered from fever symptoms, according to KCNA, indicating for the first time that he might have been infected with the virus. North Korean defectors and activists in the South had for decades sent balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the North, alongside food, medicine, money and other items.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry expressed regret over North Korea’s claim that letters from defectors were responsible for the COVID outbreak and the threats Pyongyang made, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.Analysts said although the authoritarian North has used the pandemic to tighten social controls, its victory declaration could be a prelude to restoring trade hampered by border lockdowns and other restrictions.
North Korea’s official death rate of 0.0016%, or 74 out of some 4.77 million, is an “unprecedented miracle,“ anti-COVID chief Ri Chung Gil told the meeting.
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