{"id":47043,"date":"2020-11-25T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47043"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:33:01","slug":"north-korea-locks-down-county-chagang-province-due-covid-19-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-locks-down-county-chagang-province-due-covid-19-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea locks down county in Chagang Province due to COVID-19 scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lockdown order has reportedly been issued in Wiwon County, Chagang Province, after several deaths of individuals displaying symptoms of COVID-19. With deaths occurring in military units based in the county, which borders China, entire military and border patrol units have apparently been put into group quarantine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Chagang Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that the Central Committee and Central Anti-epidemic Committee on Nov. 16 issued an order \u201clocking down Wiwon County for a month\u201d to the provincial and county parties as well as to the provincial anti-epidemic committee. Accordingly, residents of the county are unable to leave their homes and their movements are being strictly controlled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, prior to the lockdown, there were a series of deaths of individuals displaying suspected symptoms of COVID-19. The matter was dealt with especially seriously after members of the so-called Storm Corps, deployed to the county to seal the frontier, along with members of the border patrol, died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn Wiwon Country, you have the Wiwon Dam between [North] Korea and China, and people can go back and forth on the bridge over the dam,\u201d said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. \u201cBecause official smuggling also takes place there, it was relatively less closed off. At the beginning of this month, an official smuggler was put into home quarantine after showing a slight fever, but ultimately he died on Nov. 9.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said afterwards, residents complaining of fever and other symptoms of COVID-19 appeared one after another, and the entire county was eventually put under lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37838\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/IMG_6751-2-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this undated photograph, North Korean soldiers are seen in North Pyongan Province. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, three members of the Storm Corps deployed to Wiwon County died early this month after displaying suspected symptoms of COVID-19. The soldiers, who had been suffering from tuberculosis and asthma, were reportedly diagnosed with \u201csore throats.\u201d Afterwards, however, they complained of respiratory distress and fevers, and just a couple of days later they were dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities cremated their bodies and sent the bone powder to their families in envelopes, apparently leading some North Koreans to suspect the deaths were from the \u201cinfectious disease\u201d (COVID-19). In principle, soldiers who die while on duty are buried on a mountain behind their base, but since these cases were handled differently, rumors have spread.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the source said two malnourished border guards stationed in Wiwon County recently died after displaying high fevers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The unit\u2019s hygiene officer gave them fever reducers, judging them to be suffering from common colds. However, their fevers did not break for several days, and they died while being transported to a military infirmary. Rumors that the \u201cinfectious disease\u201d had spread within the county proliferated even further when it was learned that the bodies of the border guards had been cremated, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese incidents were reported through the provincial anti-epidemic committee to the Central Anti-epidemic Committee, and was passed up to the Central Committee and the Supreme Leader [Kim Jong Un], where it was ultimately decided to impose a lockdown,\u201d said the source. \u201cA team of five to seven workers from the Central Anti-epidemic Committee has been sent to Wiwon County to provide onsite guidance, and they are making real-time reports on the situation to Pyongyang.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, officials from the Ministry of People\u2019s Armed Forces Defense Command and the Central Military Commission have also reportedly gone to Wiwon Country to provide guidance to the military in the area in cooperation with public health officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith suspected COVID-19 deaths occurring in military units, members of the local Storm Corps contingents and border guards have been quarantined,\u201d said the source. \u201cThis is the first time entire groups of soldiers have been quarantined after a suspected infection in a unit tasked with garrisoning and patrolling the border region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that with the local Storm Corps and border patrol being put into isolation, border patrol duties in Wiwon County are currently being handled by Storm Corps personnel who had been sent as reinforcements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAbout 1,000 members of the Storm Corps sent from their command post in Tokchon, South Pyongan Province, are filling up the space left empty by the quarantined Storm Corps and border patrol officers,\u201d said the source. \u201cOnly these newly deployed members of the Storm Corps are patrolling the border in Wiwon County. Not even a single member of the border patrol is on duty.\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 class=\"extlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%9e%90%ea%b0%95%eb%8f%84-%ec%9c%84%ec%9b%90%ea%b5%b0%eb%8f%84-%eb%b4%89%ec%87%84%eb%a0%b9%ed%8f%ad%ed%92%8d%ea%b5%b0%eb%8b%a8%c2%b7%ea%b5%ad%ea%b2%bd%ea%b2%bd%eb%b9%84%eb%8c%80-%ec%a7%91\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lockdown order has reportedly been issued in Wiwon County, Chagang Province, after several deaths of individuals displaying symptoms of COVID-19. With deaths occurring in military units based in the county, which borders China, entire military and border patrol units have apparently been put into group quarantine. 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