North Korea claims it has zero coronavirus cases — but experts are skeptical. 'Given past examples, North Korea's official announcement that it has no patients cannot be trusted,' says a North Korean neurologist who defected to South Korea in 2012.
"Past epidemics that originated in China have always spread to North Korea, and vice versa," says Choi Jung-hoon, a North Korean neurologist who defected to South Korea in 2012. During the 2003 SARS epidemic and other disease outbreaks, he says, cases in North Korea often went unreported or underreported.
"On the train, there were all kinds of people, North Koreans of every class, who needed to get somewhere," he says."Male and female, young and old, everyone.""During the four months that I was on the trains, I think I found over 500 suspected patients," he says. He also questions North Korea's claims to have sealed its porous border with China. He notes that smugglers go back and forth across rivers separating the two countries.
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