Japan decides not to leave North Korea alone after COVID-19 outbreak

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has not ruled out that Tokyo will help Pyongyang in combating the officially recognized COVID-19 outbreak in that country.

“We do not have diplomatic relations with this country, but that does not mean that we should leave it alone,” Hayashi said. According to the Japanese minister, the world must face the epidemic together.

On May 12, North Korea reported the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s history. At an emergency meeting of the Politburo, Kim Jong Un said that in the DPRK “an emergency situation has arisen due to the coronavirus” and called for the most stringent measures to be taken to combat the “malicious virus.”

By order of Kim Jong-un, the People’s Army’s Military Medical Forces participated in the “stabilization of medicine supplies to Pyongyang”.

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