North Korea berates South Korea's leading diplomat for doubt above 'zero COVID-19 cases'
09 December, 2020
North Korea lashed away at South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha for casting doubt above its claim that there have been very little coronavirus outbreaks there, caution of consequences on her behalf "impudent" comment, condition media said on Wednesday (Dec 9).
Kang said on Saturday that it had been "hard to believe" that North Korea had zero coronavirus cases even as the united states has been building all-out efforts to prevent the disease.
North Korea hasn't officially confirmed any infections, though it offers said there were a large number of "suspected cases".
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean head Kim Jong Un who serves as a good senior ruling Workers' Get together official, issued a declaration to the state KCNA news firm, saying Kang's remarks were designed to further stress inter-Korean ties.
"It can be experienced from the reckless remarks created by her without the consideration of the results that she is too eager to further chill the frozen relations," Kim said.
"We will never forget her phrases and she may need to pay dearly for this."
South Korean President Moon Jae-on and Kim Jong Un placed three summits in 2018 however the relations have made little improvement since a failed 2019 summit somewhere between Kim and US President Donald Trump, which Moon had wanted to mediate.
KCNA said the other day that North Korea has imposed "top-class emergency measures" to block the coronavirus building inroads.
Seoul's National Intelligence Services has said an outbreak found in the North can't be eliminated as the isolated region had trade and people-to-people exchanges with China, where the virus emerged a year ago, before sealing the border in late January.
The KCNA report came as US Deputy Secretary of Status Stephen Biegun, Washington's point man on North Korea who had led denuclearisation talks, found its way to Seoul late on Mon on his potential last trip before a new US administration under President-elect Joe Biden takes office the following month.
Pyongyang has not issued a formal response to the latest US election.
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