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North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘grave incident’ in fight against the coronavirus
WaPo via MSN ^ | 29 Jun 2021 | Simon Denyer

Posted on 06/29/2021 9:11:46 PM PDT by blueplum

TOKYO — North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has chastised ruling party officials for failures in their anti-virus work that created what he called a “grave incident” that caused a “huge crisis” in the country’s battle against covid-19, state media reported Wednesday....

...State media did not specify what had happened.

“By neglecting important decisions of the party in its national emergency antivirus fight in preparations for a global health crisis, officials in charge have caused a grave incident that poses a huge crisis to the safety of the nation and its people,” the Korea Central News Agency quoted Kim as saying.

Kim had called a meeting of the Politburo of the ruling Workers’ Party on Tuesday...Several Politburo members, secretaries of the central committee, and officials of several state agencies were replaced at the meeting, KCNA reported....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; kim; northkorea; rocketman
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1 posted on 06/29/2021 9:11:46 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I can imagine in a society of deprivation that they’ve lost a fair number of people.


2 posted on 06/29/2021 9:12:56 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: blueplum

A “grave incident.”

Did they bury Kim? Did his sister bump him off?


3 posted on 06/29/2021 9:14:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Even North Korea is not this nuts!" - Yeonmi Park, North Korean refugee at Columbia University)
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To: blueplum

I think fat little rocketman got the bug. He’s pulled through, but decidedly on the wan side and is not happy. I suspect multiple executions in the future after he decides who to blame.


4 posted on 06/29/2021 9:16:20 PM PDT by Ronin (White privilege is not having to fake your own hate crimes. (HT: CrappieLuck))
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To: blueplum; metmom; LilFarmer

Well, many of us suspected, early on, that the people of NK weren’t faring well, during the china virus. Didn’t they continuously report no/low deaths?

Interesting way to word it, Kim.

As in...the beatings will continue until moral, and survival rates, improve.

:-(


5 posted on 06/29/2021 9:20:36 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Ronin

Those who were given the responsibility of not allowing him to get the virus are already dead. Of covid of course.


6 posted on 06/29/2021 9:21:02 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: blueplum

Kim had called a meeting of the Politburo of the ruling Workers’ Party on Tuesday...Several Politburo members, secretaries of the central committee, and officials of several state agencies were replaced at the meeting, KCNA reported....

Good Times!


7 posted on 06/29/2021 9:21:41 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: bigbob

Those in charge of sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.


8 posted on 06/29/2021 9:25:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I’m not sure if ‘sacked’ is the right terminology

‘wacked’ might be a closer meaning to ‘replaced’?


9 posted on 06/29/2021 9:33:09 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

Well, yes “sacked” in NoKo has a different meaning.


10 posted on 06/29/2021 9:35:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jane Long

North Korea never had more than one person who had covid.

I saw the tallies for myself. 1. 0. 1. 0. 1. 0...


11 posted on 06/29/2021 9:37:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: blueplum

If by some chance, Kim does have COVID, can you imagine being the doctor who has to tell him his diagnosis?
The Scientist choses his Doctor to do it.
The Doctor choses his Nurse Practitioner to tell Kim.
The Nurse Practioner choses the Registered Nurse,
The Registered Nurse choses her most Senior Intern
The Most Senior Intern choses his newest Intern
The Newest Intern choses her last Boyfriend;
A recycled Formaldahyde Buyer from South Korea.


12 posted on 06/29/2021 9:38:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: dfwgator

I know someone who sacked a bunch of kittens in the river.


13 posted on 06/29/2021 9:39:43 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Jonty30

😂


14 posted on 06/29/2021 9:43:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jonty30
I can imagine in a society of deprivation that they’ve lost a fair number of people.

Malnutrition is a top cause of immunodeficiency worldwide, so it would seem that DPRK would be an easy target for SARS2.

Of course, this might be an excuse to execute a bunch of people, and has nothing to do with SARS2.

15 posted on 06/29/2021 10:02:36 PM PDT by ETCM
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Several Politburo members, secretaries of the central committee, and officials of several state agencies were replaced at the meeting,

Define "replaced"...

16 posted on 06/29/2021 10:37:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: blueplum

Problem with Tyrants - people are afraid to tell them the truth!
When Stalin got the stroke, everybody was afraid to touch him. They called meetings and debated what to do. When they finally started treatments, it was too late!
If Stalin was not so paranoid, he could maybe be cured and lived for some more time.


17 posted on 06/29/2021 11:11:03 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: blueplum

I think little rocketman is concerned about his own Grave Incident.


18 posted on 06/30/2021 12:21:14 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Republican Wildcat

#16. In No. Korea, the word “replaced” actually means “erased”. The same for “sacked”. If you are “sacked”, you are “whacked” and then put in a “sack” for use as fertilizer.

The Communists of NK are the world’s best “human remains recyclers”.


19 posted on 06/30/2021 12:21:27 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Jonty30

Maybe Fauchi can go help?


20 posted on 06/30/2021 12:26:47 AM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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