PYONGYANG, Nov 16 (NNN-KCNA) – Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), presided over a Political Bureau meeting yesterday, to discuss the country’s efforts to fight COVID-19, state media reported this morning.
The 20th enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) “discussed in depth, the issue of further tightening the state emergency anti-pandemic system, in face of the ever-worsening worldwide health crisis.”
At the meeting, Kim analysed and assessed the serious worldwide spread of COVID-19 and the anti-pandemic situation in his country, and clarified various tasks on the emergency anti-pandemic front.
He also stressed the need to keep a high alert, build a tight blocking wall and further intensify the anti-pandemic work, being aware of the important responsibility for the security of the state and the well-being of the people, the report said.
DPRK claims to have zero case of COVID-19, but stayed on high alert since early this year, when it shut its borders and enforced strict anti-virus measures across the country.– NNN-KCNA
