"Xi Jingping has a message for the world: China is retaking its position at the head of the world's nations. And the Party media cheer: Make way, West! Make way, capitalism and democracy! Here comes zhongguo fang'an, the 'Chinese solution.'"
- Kai Straittmatter,
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." 
- Aristotle

"Everything we say, everything we do, and everything we fail to say or do
will have its impact in other lands." 
-  Dwight D. Eisenhower


We have to be very concerned with an outbreak in the north Korean People's Army.  If the military loses coherency and thus the ability to support the regime we are likely to see international instability and implosion ( conditions  and effects tat remain in the north) that could lead to explosion (conditions and effects that spill out of the north).


Fears coronavirus spreading in North Korea army as 4 die with Covid-19 symptoms

dailystar.co.uk · by Tom Towers · April 10, 2020
The  coronavirus outbreak has reportedly struck  North Korea's military - with dozens of troops now quarantined.
Three military doctors and one GP suddenly died of suspected Covid-19 symptoms on April 5, including fever.
They were pronounced dead at the Naval West Sea Fleet Command's 32nd Hospital in Nampo City.
North Korea's Navy Command, West Coast Fleet Command, and Korean People's Army afterwards quarantined around 50 soldiers and 20 medical personnel, Daily NK reports.
The victims' relatives have reportedly since been placed into a "national quarantine" facility in the city.
One of the doctors had been going to work for a week while hiding a fever, it is claimed.
Kim Jong-un's hermit kingdom continues to report no cases  (Image: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image)
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The Ministry of People's Armed Forces has now instructed each hospital to note cases where body temperature exceeds 37.4C and fever persists for more than two days.
Kim Jong-un's hermit kingdom continues to report no cases - with serious doubt cast on its claims.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) representative to North Korea told Reuters that fewer than 1,000 people in the country have been tested but a number of its citizens are in quarantine.
In contrast, South Korea has reported 10,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Three military doctors and one GP suddenly died of suspected Covid-19 symptoms on April 5  (Image: via REUTERS)
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Dr Edwin Salvador, the WHO's representative for North Korea, said: "As of 2 April, 709 people - 11 foreigners and 698 nationals - have been tested for COVID-19.
"There is no report of a COVID-19 case. There are 509 people in quarantine - two foreigners and 507 nationals.
"Since 31 December, 24,842 people have been released from quarantine, which includes 380 foreigners."
The victims' relatives have reportedly since been placed into a 'national quarantine' facility in Nampo City  (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Last month, a North Korean officer was demoted for drinking, "debauchery" and breaching the communist nation's strict coronavirus lockdown rules.
In an article titled "Let's find a lesson from the complacent, idle, and privilege-seeking acts among Chonnae County officials", party officials described one officer who had been "expelled from the party".
It read: "Recently among some officials of Kangwon province's Chonnae county, complacent, idle, and privilege-seeking phenomena arose in which... [some officials] were negligent of their duties and committed drinking debauchery."
dailystar.co.uk · by Tom Towers · April 10, 2020

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