South Korean Spy Agency Says North Korea Under Lockdown To Stop Covid-19

Soldiers wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus rally to welcome the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of KoreaCredit: AP 

The SUN: DESPERATE TIMES Kim Jong-un ‘carries out executions, bans fishing and locks down capital Pyongyang in frantic bid to stop Covid’ 

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un has executed at least two people and locked down the capital in a Covid-19 lockdown effort, a South Korean spy agency said today. 

After a briefing in Seoul, one lawmaker said Kim was taking "irrational measures" over the pandemic. 

Ha Tae-keung said the National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers that the dictator had executed a well-known money changer in Pyongyang last month after holding a person responsible for the falling exchange rate. 

In August a key official was executed for violating government regulations on restricting goods brought from abroad, Ha said quoting NIS officials. 

Neither of the people executed were identified. In a bizarre bid to save the country from the Covid-19 pandemic North Korea has also banned fishing and salt production at sea to prevent seawater from being infected with the virus. 

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Update: North Korea executed people, shut capital, South Korean spy agency says (NBC/AP) \

WNU Editor: North Korea's medical institutions are barely functional in the best of times. My gut tells me that the situation in North Korea right now must be very dire.