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No? they are halting all businesses and Factories etc. this is very disruptive to supply chains and is out of the ordinary.
“Respiratory illness” wonder what it could be? >

“It’s just the flu” >

By Easter it'll be gone. >

It will miraculously go away by April as the heat comes >

Maybe you can inject bleach. >

No, the DPRK is def not paying for bleach lol. >

Poor people, things must've been horrible for quite some time if they're making such a public statement. >

A straight up “don’t go outside” announcement that is not followed up with some dumb bullshit about it being a plot or weapon of “the west” must mean it’s pretty serious >

“As always, stay indoors!” >

I was blinded during the event. >

Sounds like you need to be electrocured >

Why am I hearing these comments in the voice of Cave Johnson? >

The lab boys tell me it’s normal… >

Definitely not Covid. Best Korea does not get Covid. >

Sure thing it is Covid. By way of China.
Edit: but in Best Korea it is just a "respiratory disease", which it is. >

But /u/Izzo definitely just told us non-sarcasticially that Best Korea does not get Covid... >

I’m just wondering if Kim Jung Un has had Covid yet. Probably not since he doesn’t go anywhere. >

I'd be stunned to find out he isn't fully vaccinated, probably with either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.  They're not available in NK, but it would be trivially easy for him to get his hands on whichever ones he wanted for himself and select friends/family. >

I mean you maybe right. But it wouldn’t surprise me if he did catch Covid and his health ain’t all that great so hopefully he croaks. >

There would just be a power vacuum and not much would change for the people of North Korea unfortunately. >

His sister would take over. She has been in the spotlight a lot lately. He already killed his aunt and uncle, and who knows how many other family members, so she is one of the few left. >

Wow. Had to look this up. A defector said the uncle was executed by firing squad of anti aircraft guns - another says he was ripped apart by 120 hungry dogs. 
I guess we really dont know what goes on behind the scenes but that is some next level super-villain stuff. >

You sure it wasn't sharks with frickin laser beans? >

I’ll tempered sea bass >

Strange and unexplainable respiratory illness that totally isn't COVID. >

does it rhyme with schmovid >

Methinks you’re on to something >

So they're fucking frozen in place, and suffering from presumably Covid, with their sub-standard medicine...  All locked in together spreading and infecting each other. The death toll is going to be catastrophic. >

Some of the rural hospitals in N Korea don’t even have power. This is most likely already awful but it sounds like this could  be catastrophic. >

A mysterious respiratory illness you say?
I wonder what it could be... >

What's the propaganda benefit of not just saying it's covid? >

They don't have many tests, so maybe they are just being overly cautious with calling it covid without the means to be 100% sure.  Idk what befit it would have though. >

Good thing they spent all that money on missiles and weapons to threaten their neighbors. That should keep them safe. >

They can shoot the virus >

They grow flowers in NK? >

Kekw they got it from china >

isn't the capital always locked down anyway? >

You can visit depending on where your passport is from. I know you can't normally visit with a US passport, I'm not sure who else is barred but Europeans are usually fine.
It's more normal than most people expect, there are a lot of videos these days. Not a lot of private cars, people in the city mostly travel by public transit (buses and subways). There are parks, water parks (I am bothered by there being a rock climbing gym in one), fried food vendors, karaoke, etc. It's nice to see since I used to think it would be more 1984. >

Nothing happened!  Our health was on vacation! >

Oh right!  I almost forgot, they're Covid free! >

Gee I wonder which one that is. >

Time to play "Covid/ Not  Covid" >

How much do we actually know about North Korea? How do we find out things like this? Is it really apocalyptic or is this exaggerated? >

The Western news outlets do tend towards being biased against North Korea and exaggerate stories to sensationalize the nation. This Does, however seem pretty serious and unexaggerated as it was announced by the DPRK government themselves and the news is just repeating what the North Korean Health authorities have said. >

Oh so just another regular day in North Korea