{"id":1473019,"date":"2022-05-12T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473019"},"modified":"2022-05-12T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:06:55","slug":"it-took-two-years-but-north-korea-finally-had-its-first-covid-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-took-two-years-but-north-korea-finally-had-its-first-covid-case\/","title":{"rendered":"It Took Two Years, But North Korea Finally Had Its First COVID 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\">26<\/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%2Fit-took-two-years-but-north-korea-finally-had-its-first-covid-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=1473019&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><span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;The regime knows that the world would find out about this sooner or later,&#8217; expert says<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 May 12, 2022 11:55 am<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>More than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, North Korea on Thursday admitted to its first case of COVID-19, declaring it a &#8220;most serious national emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>North Korea said until Thursday that it had zero coronavirus cases, a claim at which experts have scoffed. The communist dictatorship was already in an extreme lockdown when state media reported that tests taken Sunday showed a group of people with the BA.2 subvariant.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party&#8217;s powerful politburo blamed &#8220;epidemic prevention sectors&#8221; for causing the outbreak through &#8220;carelessness, relaxation, irresponsibility, and inefficiency,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2022\/05\/breaking-north-korea-reports-first-ever-covid-19-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> South Korea-based website <i>NK News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ordered an even stricter lockdown in response, leaving residents of the capital city of Pyongyang &#8220;scrambling to get home,&#8221; <i>NK News<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2022\/05\/lockdown-orders-issued-in-pyongyang-due-to-national-problem-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has repeatedly rejected Western nations&#8217; offers of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine, even as his lockdown policies have compounded the country&#8217;s drastic food shortage.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is probably admitting to the outbreak because it &#8220;knows that the world would find out about this sooner or later,&#8221; North Korea expert Go Myong-Hyun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/11\/north-korea-coronavirus-omicron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <i>Washington Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 report broke on the same day that North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/seoul-south-korea-north-327a81d1281f2fadeb430e4c632458b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> three short-range ballistic missiles, its latest attempt at saber-rattling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security &#8216;The regime knows that the world would find out about this sooner or later,&#8217; expert says  Getty Images  Karl Salzmann \u2022 May 12,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1482731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}