Coronavirus medical supplies have been sent to North Korea by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
The move is a possible sign that North Korea is easing one of the strictest pandemic border closures in order to receive outside help.North Korea describes its anti-virus campaign as a matter of"national existence" and it has severely restricted cross-border traffic and trade since last year, despite the strain on its already crippled economy.
Edwin Salvador, WHO's representative to North Korea, said that some items, including emergency health kits and medicine, have reached the port of Nampo after North Korean authorities allowed the WHO and other United Nations agencies to send supplies that had been stuck in Dalian.In August, human rights investigators from the UN asked Pyongyang's government to clarify allegations that it ordered troops to shoot any trespassers who crossed its borders in violation of its border closures.
North Korea is yet to report a single case of COVID-19, but outside the country experts widely doubt it has manged to escape the highly transmissible illness that has swept across the globe.
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