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Korea&#8217;s elite look to foreign-made COVID-19 vaccines for salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While North Korea claims it is close to a breakthrough in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, Pyongyang&#8217;s elite are taking preliminary steps to have friends abroad purchase foreign vaccines on their behalf once one is developed, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA growing number of high-level officials and those from the entrepreneurial class have been offering dollars to those they know overseas to buy a foreign vaccine as soon as one is developed, irrespective of how much it costs,\u201d a source in North Korea told Daily NK on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is word that Chinese traders have been inundated with inquiries from Pyongyang and border regions about whether a vaccine has been developed. It appears these requests are based on the calculation that selling the vaccine will be profitable,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the main reason behind North Korean elites\u2019 interest in foreign vaccines is a lack of faith in the ability of North Korean authorities to develop a vaccine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Koreans are in fact skeptical about claims that North Korea has suddenly advanced in leaps and bounds in vaccine development, pointing out that even basic medicines are beyond the reach of most people. Elites believe that while the government may be able to deceive the common people, they themselves are not so gullible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When North Korea began supplying testing kits to hospitals in February, for example, the government claimed they were developed domestically. Doctors, however, ultimately discovered the kits were merely imitations of foreign-made products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people are also questioning why [the authorities] are so desperate to scrounge every available resource to rush the construction of Pyongyang General Hospital when they claim there isn\u2019t a single confirmed case in the country,\u201d the source pointed out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK understands that recent efforts to implement stronger disease prevention measures has raised suspicions about COVID-19 outbreaks in the country among ordinary people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNorth Korea\u2019s government is unable to look out for its citizens, a reality that has created this atmosphere [of distrust toward the government],\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cPeople already expect to just fend for themselves.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 18, North Korea\u2019s National Science and Technology Committee (NSTC) posted an article about research and development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on the \u201cMirae\u201d website. The article claimed the NSTC had begun clinical trials on a substance that could be a potential vaccine at the beginning of July, and that it was \u201cin talks\u201d with three leading global pharmaceutical companies about an officially approved phase-three clinical trial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe [North Korean communist] party already issued an order to research and develop a vaccine using our own technology, strength and knowledge,\u201d the source said. \u201cIn line with this, the Medical Science Research Institute and the Academy of Sciences have been jointly conducting research since April under the supervision of the NSTC, but so far they have nothing to show for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E5%8C%97-%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98-%EB%B0%B1%EC%8B%A0-%EA%B0%9C%EB%B0%9C-%ED%8F%89%EC%96%91%EC%8B%9C-%EA%B3%A0%EC%9C%84%EC%B8%B5%EC%9D%80-%EC%99%B8%EA%B5%AD%EC%84%9C-%EC%A2%80-%EA%B5%AC\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While North Korea claims it is close to a breakthrough in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, Pyongyang&#8217;s elite are taking preliminary steps to have friends abroad purchase foreign vaccines on their behalf once one is developed, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cA growing number of high-level officials and those from the entrepreneurial class have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":43896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-45761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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