Kim Jong-un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls
Pyongyang also stepped up construction of fences, barricades and electronic surveillance systems along its once relatively porous border with China, a process mirrored on the other side by Chinese authorities.
North Korea, which never instituted a public Covid vaccination programme, declared “victory” over the virus in August last year. The following month, it started to allow a limited number of freight transports from China through specially constructed disinfection centres. Lee, who now lives in New York, predicted they would now face even more intense examination. “They may be required to report everything they have seen and heard over the past three years, and to report on each other’s words and actions.”
On Wednesday, South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol urged Asian leaders not to accept new contingents of overseas North Korean workers, which he said helped raise foreign currency to fund Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. “It will be difficult to secure useful testimonies or information from defectors who can vividly explain the current situation in North Korea,” said Su.
Go Myong-hyun, senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, said analyses of satellite imagery and trade data to monitor agricultural output suggested that “whereas North Koreans have always been hungry, many are now likely to be starving”.
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