North Korea Blames Balloons for Spreading COVID-19

You can always count on the Kim regime to making something up to justify provocations on their part. Here is the most absurd justification they have given yet:

North Korea suggested Friday its COVID-19 outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South Korea — a highly questionable claim that appeared to be an attempt to hold its rival responsible amid increasing tensions over its nuclear program.

Activists for years have flown balloons across the border to distribute hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and North Korea has often expressed fury at the activists and at South Korea’s leadership for not stopping them.

Associated Press

You can read more at the link, but there is a domestic aspect to this as well that the Kim regime wants North Koreans to think the propaganda balloons, U.S. dollars, smuggled K-drama DVDs, etc. are all infected with COVID-19 to keep their citizens away from them.