Missile tests and meetings: North Korea signals confidence in face of coronavirus by joshjonsmith
SEOUL - With international focus on the coronavirus, North Korea has doubled down on its missile development and military exercises in recent weeks while signaling new confidence that it has dodged an outbreak of its own.
But for the first time since late February, North Korean soldiers conducting military drills and test firing short-range ballistic missiles over the weekend were shown not wearing face masks in state media photographs. “That said, this is in line with an apparent shift in North Korean media handling of the coronavirus in the past two weeks which suggested the North Korean regime’s increased confidence in managing the coronavirus situation.”
“He’s apparently trying to show his confidence and strength to his people, that he is in control, and that the regime is functioning normally by pursuing its strategic objectives despite a national crisis over a virus they have no control over,” she said.‘VERY SERIOUS’ “Under the present situation that witnesses intensified campaign against COVID-19, it comes to be an important political matter that all the people should observe the standards and orders set under the state emergency anti-epidemic system,” the paper said in an editorial, referring to the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
“Hearing from my relatives there, one thing for sure is the situation is very serious,” said a North Korean defector living in South Korea.
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