As Covid-19 spread around the world, North Korea tried to seal itself off, but it didn’t work.
You couldn’t expect it to, in a country where no one is vaccinated, nobody wears masks, and attending huge military parades is mandatory.
Its April 25, 2022, “Founder’s Day” military parade may have been a super-spreader event. In any case, omicron infections in the Hermit Kingdom are multiplying like nuclear fission. No big deal. Famine and starvation has killed millions of North Koreans. They’re used to it. Story here.