>>> > > > NORTH KOREAN LEADER IS LASHING OUT AT HIS GOVERNMENTS ARE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. WELLNESS OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED A MINIMUM OF 50 DEATHS, THEY SAY MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING FEVER -LIKE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS. THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE NO CIRCUMSTANCES UNTIL RECENTLY. >> > > SCOTT SCHNEIDER SIGNS UP WITH United States NOW. An ELDERLY OTHER FOR KOREAN STUDIES AT THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK “” SOUTH KOREA AT THE CROSSROADS””. IT IS FANTASTIC TO SATISFIED WITH US. OBVIOUSLY NORTH KOREA IS ONE OF THE KEY IS COUNTRIES ON THE EARTH BUT IS IT CAPABLE OF TAKING CARE OF A COVID BREAK OUT ON THIS RANGE? >> > > THE TRUTH THAT THEY HAVE GONE PUBLIC ABOUT THE BREAK OUT SUGGEST THAT THEY ARE NOT CANISTER CAPABLE OF HANDLING IT BY THEMSELVES. ALLOWING VIRTUALLY NO PROFESSION COME IN BETWEEN CHINA AS WELL AS NORTH KOREA WHICH WAS THE PRIMARY DEVICE BY WHICH THEY TRIED TO CONTROL THE INFECTION PREVIOUSLY DECLARING THAT THEY HAD NO SITUATIONS, BUT, NUMBERS FROM THE NORTH KOREAN SIDE SUGGESTS REALLY THAT THE SCENARIO COULD BE A LOT WORSE THAN WHAT THE NORTH KOREANS ARE REPORTING AS WELL AS IT IS RATHER CLEAR BY GOING PUBLIC WITH THE ADMISSION THAT COVID EXISTS IN NORTH KOREA THAT THEY MAY BE PREPARING FOR REQUESTING HELP FROM THE EXTERIOR.
>> > > I BELIEVE A GREAT DEAL OF PEOPLE ARE KIND OF SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS DUE TO THE FACT THAT FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS WE DIDN'' T HEAR MUCH OUT OF NORTH KOREA WHEN IT CONCERNED THIS COVID-19 OUTBREAK AND ALSO NOW THEY ARE PUBLICLY RECOGNIZING THAT THEY ARE BATTLING WITH IT. DOES NOT SURPRISE YOU? >> > > WELL, ACTUALLY, I WAS ANTICIPATING THAT NORTH KOREA MIGHT REQUEST HELP EARLIER AND I ASSUME THEY HAVE LASTED MUCH LONGER THAN I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED. NO, THEY ARE COMPLYING WITH THE SAME POLICY THAT THE CHINESE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE FOLLOWED THEREFORE IT STANDS TO REASON THAT AS THE CHINESE FIGHT WITH HANDLING THE OMICRON VARIATION, THAT IT WOULD BE LIKELY TO SPILL OVER INTO NORTH KOREA.AND SO, NOW
WE ARE AT THIS MINUTE IN WHICH KIM JONG- UN IS WEARING A MASK IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME ON TV. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A PROSPECTIVE CRISIS OF DOMESTIC POLITICAL AUTHENTICITY THEREFORE HE IS BERATING HIS OWN AUTHORITIES FOR THEIR HANDLING OF THE CONCERN AND ALSO WE WILL CERTAINLY SIMPLY NEED TO SEE EXACTLY HOW BAD IT GETS. WE DON'' T HAVE A GREAT INDEPENDENT PHOTO OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NORTH KOREA DUE TO THE TRAINING COURSES OF THE PAST 2 YEARS, THE MAJORITY OF FOREIGN AID WORKERS HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY.
>>> >, AND CERTAINLY IT'' S NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, SOUTH KOREA, WAS A DESIGN FOR COVID-19 SCREENING IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF THE PANDEMIC. COULD WE SEE THE NORTH REACH OUT TO ITS NEIGHBOR FOR HELP DEALING WITH THIS? DUE TO THE FACT THAT AS WE UNDERSTAND, THE VIRUS DOES NOT REALLY, YOU RECOGNIZE, RECOGNIZE POLITICAL OR GEOGRAPHICAL BORDERS. >> > > WILL, IT ACTUALLY IS AN EARLY OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEW SOUTH KOREA HEAD OF STATE WHO HAS ALREADY OFFERED UNBOUNDED ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA, BUT, THE CHANCE THAT KIM JONG-UN IS GOING TO BEGIN BY TAKING AID FROM SOUTH KOREA IS LOW. THE CHINESE HAVE ALSO OFFERED AID. I ASSUME THAT IT IS PERHAPS MORE PROBABLE THAT THE NORTH KOREANS WOULD RETURN TO BEIJING FOR
