North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the sending of emergency medicine to Haiju.
An unknown pandemic has hit the western port city of Haiju in North Korea. The country's state-run media, KCNA, confirmed the information on Thursday (June 18th).
According to a report by KCNA, the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un sent emergency medicine to help patients suffering from acute intestinal inflammation in Haiju on Wednesday (June 14). However, KCN did not say exactly how many people have been infected with the unknown disease so far.
KCNA also wrote that Kim has instructed to keep the infected and the suspects in isolation as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
Meanwhile, South Korea's intelligence agency said North Korea had waterborne diseases such as typhoid long before the coronavirus outbreak was announced. A senior South Korean official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the epidemic was suspected to be cholera or typhoid. He said the South Korean government was monitoring the outbreak in the neighboring country.
Incidentally, news of a new epidemic came to North Korea at a time when the country was simultaneously battling the Corona epidemic and acute food shortages.