Posted on 03/10/2020 8:39:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and thousands of others are being quarantined.
According to the Daily NK, a South Korean news outlet, 180 North Korean soldiers were killed by the virus in the months of January and February, and another 3,700 have been quarantined.
The Daily NK quoted a source, allegedly from North Korea’s military, who on March 6 cited figures from a report that detailed the impact of the virus on North Korea’s soldiers. The Epoch Times has not been able to independently verify the reports.
The North Korean soldiers who reportedly died were stationed predominantly on or around the Sino-North Korean border in North Pyongan, Chagang, Ryanggang, and North Hamgyong provinces, according to the news outlet.
The report was sent to the regime’s military leaders, and the source claimed there are “just too many bodies” that the North Korean military is struggling to cremate the soldiers killed by the disease.
“I haven’t heard of corpses being cremated in military hospitals,” the source allegedly said. “The military leadership likely believes that suddenly asking the hospitals to cremate all the bodies would create a big headache for medical staff.”
North Korea has not confirmed any cases of COVID-19. However, experts have become increasingly concerned that Pyongyang is covering-up cases and deaths.
According to reports, North Korea last week placed at least 7,000 people under quarantine in an attempt to prevent coronavirus spread in the country.
It has also put in place “high-intensity” measures that the country’s state media says are to prevent coronavirus infections.
These measures include a ban on foreign tourists, reinforced border checks, and the suspension of most air and rail travel within and out of the country.
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And, NK has highly restricted borders. Plus, none of those soldiers are over 70 or 80, the age casually written off by some on FR in evaluating the potential severity of this disease.
Hmmmm....
Or.....it became a good excuse to eliminate some borderline undesirables
I casually write these numbers off because it is Nk. Who knows what risk factors they deal with compared to western culture.
Judging by the one who got across the DMZ last year or so, those guys are all just about half dead anyway.
Agreed. Our visibility into NK is very limited and distorted.
BS. Utterly NO WAY for them to verify this.
How about we stick to SCIENCE AND DATA and not “unnamed, unknown sources” with supposed anecdotal evidence?
Notice the common thing about all this panic mongering treads?
Not a shred of data or science. Instead we just suppose to accept the Fake News word they know what they are talking about.
The same Fake News we normally mock here daily for their shameless lying and overt attempts at political manipulation
Info out of NorKor? They probably dropped a few zeros on that tabulation.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I bet their soldiers eat bats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I was thinking the same thing as far as the age goes.
I would expect North Korea to get hit hit harder by this virus than Western nations. Their population is perpetually undernourished, and the climate is harsh. I suspect the figures are larger than are being reported; axiomatic, really, in a Communist regime.
Oh noes! Did you hear that Ethel?
They’re banning foreign tourists! Dag nab it!
That screws up our vacation for next week
And I was really looking forward to going to Pyongyang
Hmmmmm…
We have news feeds from inside NK!?
In any case, the Health System(Do they even have one?) in North Korea is non-existent.
To the FEARFUL on FR, IF this virus was SO lethal wouldn’t there be more than about 25 deaths in the US by now???
The mortality rate is 2-3% and going DOWN. They expect it to go under 1%.
Patience.
I’m hoping warm weather will bring things down.
But it is also early in the outbreak/containment scenario, and every day brings news of additional infections/quarantines in the US.
We’ll see.
But, I’m over 70, so I’m not brushing this off the same way I would have 20 years ago.
i have a feeling that cleanliness has a huge effect.
I’m taking this report with a huge grain of salt.
The soldiers are old men out of step with jong un
Is data from Seattle any more reliable?
If the defector NK soldier that made it across the DMZ a couple of years back is any indication of others, he was malnourished, ‘parasite’ ridden, and had other health problems, besides the gunshot wounds.
I would bet that the average NK soldier is about as healthy as an average 60 year old anywhere else.
The figures seem to bear this theory out................
See #18.............
Yeah, you’re probably correct. I can see that.
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