{"id":1472932,"date":"2022-05-12T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472932"},"modified":"2022-05-12T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:59:47","slug":"gravest-national-emergency-north-korea-locks-down-entire-nation-amid-first-reported-omicron-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gravest-national-emergency-north-korea-locks-down-entire-nation-amid-first-reported-omicron-case\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gravest National Emergency\u2019: North Korea Locks Down Entire Nation Amid First Reported Omicron Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgravest-national-emergency-north-korea-locks-down-entire-nation-amid-first-reported-omicron-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/3BC89137-FE3F-4586-8E93-3F4DC570B009_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>North Korea reported an Omicron variant case in the capital city of Pyongyang on Thursday and ordered a countrywide lockdown amid the \u201cgravest national emergency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/nkorea-says-it-detected-outbreak-stealth-omicron-virus-state-media-2022-05-12\/\">reported<\/a> that the infection is the first case of COVID-19 reported by the reclusive communist nation, which has no official record of its citizens being vaccinated<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe state\u2019s most serious emergency has occurred: A break emerged in our emergency epidemic prevention front that had been firmly defended until now,\u201d state-sponsored North Korean news agency KCNA said, according to Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a meeting with the Workers\u2019 Party politburo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a \u201cstrict lockdown\u201d for the entire nation, as well as the use of emergency medical supply reserves. Likely wearing a mask in public for the first time, Kim emphasized that the nation will endure the outbreak because the government and people are \u201cunited as one,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-health-pandemics-south-korea-north-0e0cb1be7a3878a771124dcdcbdba06c\"><span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNorth Korea, which has maintained strict anti-virus controls at its borders for more than two years, didn\u2019t provide further details about its new lockdown,\u201d the AP continued. \u201cBut an Associated Press photographer on the South Korean side of the border saw dozens of people working in fields or walking on footpaths at a North Korean border town \u2014 an indication the lockdown doesn\u2019t require people to stay home, or it exempts farm work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe state epidemic prevention work shall be switched over to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system,\u201d KCNA continued, according to Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>North Korea \u2014 which Johns Hopkins\u2019 Bloomberg School of Public Health <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-engaging-in-frantic-efforts-to-stop-coronavirus-spread-reports\"><span>ranked<\/span><\/a><span> 193 out of 195 nations in pandemic preparedness ahead of COVID-19 \u2014 executed citizens in 2020 during a frantic attempt to stop virus spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kim \u201cexecuted two people, closed the country\u2019s capital, and banned fishing at sea in a frantic attempt to prevent the spread of coronavirus, South Korea\u2019s spy agency told lawmakers,\u201d The New York Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/27\/kim-jong-un-reportedly-executed-2-closed-capital-amid-covid\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in 2020. \u201cThe tyrant has been lashing out with \u2018excessive anger\u2019 and taking \u2018irrational measures\u2019 in recent weeks as a result of the pandemic, said one of the officials, Ha Tae-keung, who was briefed by National Intelligence Service.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Likewise, Tim Peters \u2014 who runs a Christian nonprofit called Helping Hands Korea based in Seoul, South Korea \u2014 told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3108113\/north-korea-hiding-coronavirus-quarantine-camps-china\"><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/a><span> that North Korea started \u201cquarantine camps\u201d near its Chinese border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne of the more alarming pieces of information that has come our way is that the DPRK government is providing absolutely minimal or no food or medicine to those who are interred there,\u201d Peters said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s up to the families of the quarantined citizens to come to the edge of the camps and bring food to keep quarantined relatives alive along with whatever health-related aids that they can muster, whether it be purchased medicines sold in the jangmadang markets, or even herbal home remedies gathered from mountainsides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy sources indicate many in these camps have already died, not only from the pandemic but also from starvation and related causes,\u201d he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Kim regime apologized in September 2020 for the killing of a South Korean government official who, after he was killed, had oil thrown on his body and was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/25\/world\/asia\/korea-kim-jong-un-apology-killing-defector.html\"><span>burned<\/span><\/a><span> over fears that he might have COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea reported an Omicron variant case in the capital city of Pyongyang on Thursday and ordered a countrywide lockdown amid the \u201cgravest national emergency.\u201dReuters reported that the infection 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