North Korea has finally been hit by Covid, and it’s ill-equipped to fight the outbreak
The country is believed to be completely unvaccinated, and many of its hospitals lack basic medicines, let alone ventilators.
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Katie Stallard
Katie Stallard is senior editor, China and global affairs, of the New Statesman. She is the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, and a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Centre in Washington, DC.
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