North Korea seems to be ordering foreign diplomats to leave the country

[Mike 03]

A week ago NK quarantined 380 foreigners, most of whom were diplomats, calling it an attempt to stop the coronavirus from breaking out. (Not everyone believes that was the reason they were quarantined).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51609360

North Korea has maintained it has zero cases of COVID-19 but experts are skeptical:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807027901/north-korea-claims-zero-cases-of-coronavirus-infection-but-experts-are-skeptical

Yesterday, Kim Jong Un warned of 'serious consequences' if coronavirus hits North Korea

https://thehill.com/policy/international/485281-kim-jong-un-warns-of-serious-consequences-if-coronavirus-hits-north

There was a story last week that a person suspected of having COVID-19 in North Korea had been executed.

On Feb. 13, the New York Post reported a suspected one case of Coronavirus located in the military country of North Korea. A North Korean official -- that was not identified -- came from the COVID-19 outbreak center China and went back to the country wherein he was quarantined before officially returning to North Korea.

Reports said that the official insisted on going to a public bathroom even while he was under quarantine. After this, the quarantined official was reportedly shot dead after risking the spread of the viral disease in the country.

Under the new rule of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un, he vowed that anyone will leave the Coronavirus quarantine process without any permission from any officials would be "ruled by military law"-- this means they will be executed on the spot once they got caught.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/247610/20200226/north-korean-man-shot-dead-after-being-suspected-with-coronavirus.htm

An hour or two ago CNN's Will Ripley tweeted this:

Link to tweet

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[Hekate]

1. Salsipuedes: Get Out While You Can. Stay safe, diplomats.

[drray23]

2. I guess if you shoot dead everybody who is sick

You stop the spread. That's probably what Kim is going for.

[braddy]

3. Could they be reducing possible sources of information and video leaks as they seek to go invisible

in dealing with their internal corona virus problems.

[Chainfire]

8. Probably

That makes the most sense. Despots like to cover up their failures......

[Leghorn21]

5. Zero cases would be great - but this blurb makes one go "hmmmm"...

Russia sends coronavirus test kits to N. Korea

Link to tweet

SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- Russia has provided North Korea with coronavirus diagnosis kits at the request of Pyongyang, according to the Russian foreign ministry on Wednesday.

"Due to the persisting risk of the new COVID-19 infection, Russia has donated 1,500 coronavirus diagnostic test kits to Pyongyang at the request of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," the Russian foreign ministry said in a press release available on its website, referring to North Korea by its official name.

"We hope that this step will help North Korea prevent the infection from penetrating the country," it said.

The press release did not give further details, however, such as when the kits were delivered.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Foreigners probably couldn't tell the difference between a coronavirus quarantine and ...

... a normal visit to NK.

[Turbineguy]

7. Nice of them

for not shooting the diplomats.