The world is on a spurt to contain the new mutation of the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 which has emerged from the family of coronaviruses. No country or island is left untouched with this disease. Worldwide cases are on the rise. Each country is doing its level best to curb the spread of the virus. However, the North Korean government is on a different track altogether to rein the ramification of the ailment.
North Korean authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the virus from entering their territory from its ally country China according to the commander of US forces in the south. The order is believed to be passed as the result of the impoverishment prevalent in the country whose collapsing health systems would struggle to endure with a major outbreak. Due to this order passed, the dictator ruled country has not confirmed of a single case of the disease that has swept the world since first emerging in China.
Apart from the short-to-kill order, Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, closed its border with China at the start of the year to prevent the contagion and as of July raised its state of emergency to the maximum level. The medical fraternity of the country is already grappling with the after-effects of Typhoon Maysak with its state media reporting the destruction and inundation of more than 2000 Abrams told that as a result of the border closure, the economic sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear programs had effectively accelerated the effects.He also added that the imports from China were plunged by 85%.
“The North introduced a new buffer zone, one or two kilometers up on the Chinese border,” Abrams told an online conference organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington on Thursday.
With the destruction caused due to typhoons and the weak medical infrastructure, the meat industry of Kim Jong Un’s regime also received a backlash. Recently the country was in short of meat and food which lead to the passing of an order, that issued to hand over pets and stray dogs from the houses and streets to hilt the food shortage. With the infrastructure of the basic necessities being infirm and both food and medical fraternites striving to serve the nation, the country doesn’t find it possible to handle the outbreak effectively. Hence Kim Jong Un deems it correct to pass such an iniquitous order
