North Korea 'shoots dead coronavirus patient' after he's 'seen at public baths'

www.dailystar.co.uk ^ | 09:42, 13 FEB 2020Updated13:12, 13 FEB 2020 | By David Rivers

[Red Badger]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un quickly placed those returning from China in a quarantine. But according to reports an official was spotted breaching the order

A North Korean official has reportedly been executed after breaching the country's strict rules surrounding coronavirus.

Maniac leader Kim Jong-un had set the rules surrounding those who had returned from China, according to reports.

He then ordered them into a quarantine.

But according to Korean news outlet Wikitree and other outlets in the region, an official was executed after he was spotted at public baths.

The method of execution was by shooting, the report adds.

And the quarantine applied to individuals who had visited China in the past 30 days after the outbreak started there.

The coronavirus broke out in Wuhan at the end of last year, with the majority of deaths and cases in China.

The total death toll now stands at more than 1,350 and over 60,000 cases have been confirmed.

It has also emerged that North Korea has suspended entry and exit for employees on diplomatic missions following the outbreak.

The Russian embassy in Pyongyang said in a statement on Facebook: "The DPRK Foreign Ministry informs that the quarantine and medical supervision period established for employees of diplomatic missions and representative offices of international organisations is extended until March 1, 2020.

"In addition, the provisions of the DPRK Foreign Ministry note No. 976 of February 4, 2020 on the entry and exit procedures expire, and moving through border crossings temporarily suspended."

The statement added the measures would be extended for 30 days.

However, the Red Cross called for an urgent exemption from sanctions on North Korea on Thursday to help prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus, following an epidemic in neighbouring China.

"We know that there is urgent need of personal protective gear and testing kits, items which will be vital to prepare for a possible outbreak," Xavier Castellanos, Asia Pacific director for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies (IFRC) said in a statement.

An exemption allowing for a bank transfer to the IFRC country office in North Korea "is essential as a life-saving intervention," he added.

He continued: "There is currently no other mode available for humanitarian intervention and we must act now."

International sanctions bar a wide range of business, trade, and other interactions with North Korea. The sanctions were imposed over the country's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, which were developed in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.

North Korea has not confirmed any cases of the new coronavirus, but state media said the government was extending the quarantine period for people showing symptoms to 30 days, and all government institutions and foreigners living in the country were expected to comply "unconditionally."

Already one of the most closed-off countries in the world, North Korea has stopped airline flights and train service with its neighbours, established weeks-long mandatory quarantines for recently arrived foreigners, suspended international tourism, and imposed a near-complete lockdown on cross-border travel.

Some South Korean media outlets have reported multiple cases and possible deaths from the virus in North Korea, but World Health Organization officials based in Pyongyang told Voice of America that they have not been notified of any confirmed cases. State media reported that North Korea's Red Cross Society had deployed to "relevant areas" around the country to conduct public education campaigns and to monitor people with possible symptoms.

"They are conducting information activities in various forms and by various methods at public places to introduce common medical knowledge about the epidemic and encourage people to give fuller play to the noble moral traits of helping and leading each other forward," state news agency KCNA reported.

According to the IFRC, its branch in North Korea had mobilised 500 volunteers, and was the only aid organisation with access to the four provinces closest to the border with China.

[Red Badger]

Well, that's one way to stop the spread..................

[SkyDancer]

If he’s already dead why shoot him?

[Red Badger]

Double tap.....................

[Scrambler Bob]

The method of execution was by shooting
= = =

Just don’t spray any blood and associated vapors around the area.

[Reily]

practice?

[mewzilla]

Someone forgot to use an article.

[Red Badger]

Here, comrade, get into this body bag...................

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See also: North Korea 'executes trade official for visiting a public bath while he was in quarantine over coronavirus fears after returning from China'

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Kickass Conservative]

Good thing there aren’t any North Korean Cruise Ships...

[SkyDancer]

The UK Daily Mail does that quite frequently.

[plain talk]

Not even sure he was infected. But he’s dead now.

[Pearls Before Swine]

It doesn’t say if he actually had the virus. Just that, being a privileged official, he broke quarantine. Discipline. He wasn’t as privileged as he thought.

[SkyDancer]

You just don’t mess around in NK.

[woodbutcher1963]

Did they make him dig his own grave first?

[clearcarbon]

I read here that colloidal silver kills virus. Apparently so does lead.

[dfwgator]

“Boy is he strict!”

[Red Badger]

No but they did make him climb into the body bag.................

[Yaelle]

So you don’t need to wait til they get the virus or even exposed - just shoot em if you even think they might be sick.

[samtheman]

Good thing there aren’t any North Korean Cruise Ships...
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Really. If there are also North Korean submarines, the North Korean Cruise Ships would all be torpedoed and sunk.

[Boogieman]

“the Red Cross called for an urgent exemption from sanctions on North Korea on Thursday to help prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus”

No, this would be the time to slap even more sanctions on them. You don’t roll back sanctions right when they would be most effective.