USFK Commander Says North Korea Has “Shoot-to-Kill Orders” to Prevent Coronavirus from Entering the Country

Here is what USFK Commander General Abrams had to say lately about North Korea’s coronavirus prevention methods:

A woman wearing a face mask exits an underpass before a poster commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the founding of North Korea, in Pyongyang, Sept. 9, 2020. AFP

North Korean authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the coronavirus entering the country from China, according to the commander of US forces in the South.

The impoverished North ― whose crumbling health system would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak ― has not confirmed a single case of the disease that has swept the world since first emerging in China, the North’s key ally.

Pyongyang closed its border with China in January to try to prevent contamination, and in July state media said it had raised its state of emergency to the maximum level.

US Forces Korea (USFK) commander Robert Abrams said that the border shutdown had increased demand for smuggled goods, prompting authorities to intervene.

The North introduced a new “buffer zone, one or two kilometers up on the Chinese border,” Abrams told an online conference organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington on Thursday.

“They’ve got North Korean SOF (Special Operations Forces) out there. … Strike forces, they’ve got shoot-to-kill orders in place.”

The border closure had effectively “accelerated the effects” of economic sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear programs, he added, with imports from China plunging 85 percent.

Korea Times
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J6Junkie
J6Junkie
4 years ago

Too late. China cough is everywhere and on everything they use.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
4 years ago

nK needs to know the truth….https://youtu.be/Lh6VnB7JvW0

johnhenry
johnhenry
4 years ago

This is news, that the border guards in North Korea have a shoot to kill order?

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