North Korea Reportedly Closes Border Due to Ebola Fears
I doubt the travel ban is actually for ebola, but that is what the North Koreans are claiming:
When word spreads in Max Brooks’s 2006 dystopian novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War that zombies are infesting the world, North Korea acts decisively, sealing its borders and hustling its people into mysterious bunkers. “No country was better prepared to repel the infestation than North Korea,” says Hyungchol Choi, the fictional deputy director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. “Rivers to the north, oceans to the east and west, and to the south … the most heavily fortified border on Earth.”
Now, as a far less apocalyptic virus completely unrelated to zombies spreads, North Korea is closing its borders. On Thursday, Oct. 23, North Korea notified foreign tour operators that visitors are now banned. “The reason given was Ebola, and I can’t think of any other reason, as they don’t arbitrarily close the border,” Simon Cockerell, managing director of the tour operator Koryo Tours, told USA Today. [Foreign Policy]
You can read the rest at the link.
Darn! And right before ski season in NK.
GOP politicians should move to N. Korea…
“We has ISIS. We have Ebola. We have to secure the border. And we cannot have amnesty,” said Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) during a debate Wednesday with his opponent, independent Greg Orman.
Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) traveled back to Washington on Thursday to attend a House hearing on the virus, taking a break from his campaign against Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.).
A day earlier, Gardner used the debate to criticize Obama for his response to Ebola and calling for a travel ban.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also pushed the idea of a travel ban; he’s in a race against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of State, but has gained momentum in recent days.
“I’m not an expert on this, but it strikes me that it would be a good idea to discontinue flights from that part of the world,” the GOP leader told local television outlet cn|2 Pure Politics on Wednesday.
I’m calling cheese on that quote. You’re telling us a Senior Senator from the US said “We has ISIS.”?
“I think there is probably a racial propaganda angle to the whole Ebola in NK issue, For example the regime propaganda could be playing up the dirty foreigners and their diseases trying to pollute the pure Korean blood and the quick action of Kim Jong-un has stopped the virus from coming to NK.”
https://www.rokdrop.net/2014/10/rok-drop-open-thread-october-27-2014/
What is your point? Korean pure blood is a wrong/stupid ideology that’s been spilt on even S. Koreans – thy apple doesn’t fall far from thine tree.
Certainly there ain’t no “racial propaganda” factor in America aye?