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
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.
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