When a defecting South Korean maritime official tried to swim across the border in 2020, the North Korean navy shot him and burnt his body at sea for fear he was contaminated with coronavirus.
Five months later, a group of Russian diplomats and their families were forced to propel themselves and their luggage across the North Korean border on a hand-pushed railway trolley.
Both episodes illustrate the extreme lengths to which Kim Jong Un, who sealed the country’s borders in February 2020, was prepared to go to prevent his unvaccinated and undernourished nation from coming into contact with Covid-19.
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