{"id":48548,"date":"2021-05-26T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48548"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:31","slug":"north-hamgyong-province-party-committee-evaluates-covid-19-control-measures-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-hamgyong-province-party-committee-evaluates-covid-19-control-measures-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"North Hamgyong Province party committee evaluates COVID-19 control measures over past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this month, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee held a meeting to evaluate the province&#8217;s COVID-19 control measures over the past year and to announce future efforts to control the spread of the disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOn May 15, the provincial party committee held a gathering of party and administrative officials, along with business managers, from all around the province,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cAt the meeting, they reviewed the provincial Emergency Anti-Epidemic Committee\u2019s fight against COVID-19 throughout the past year and talked about what to expect in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The committee also emphasized the need to further tighten the Sino-North Korean border and for North Koreans to continue their &#8220;struggle&#8221; against the disease.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVaccines have been made available throughout the world, but they have side effects and are not effective against variants, so we don\u2019t know how long the fight against the disease is going to last,\u201d according to materials made available during the meeting. The materials further emphasized that North Korea &#8220;can\u2019t stand by idly or let its guard down [yet].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43384\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43384 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bakery\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/DSC02011.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, taken in February 2018. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The materials went on to mention the \u201cthousands of transmittable disease-related deaths\u201d that took place in North Hamgyong Province during the past year. The committee reportedly claimed that the deaths were the fault of North Korean officials who were half hearted in their efforts to follow &#8220;national anti-epidemic measures.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe provincial party committee said that the number of pandemic victims was even higher than the number of people who died in flooding last year in North Hamgyong Province,\u201d the source said. \u201cOfficials from party, administrative, and judicial agencies, as well anti-epidemic and medical agencies, were told to take lessons from this and to stop sending up reports expressing concern to the Party anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe cadres who participated in the meeting and their family members who heard about the lecture afterward said that it was surprising and horrible to hear that [North Korean authorities] announced through the materials that thousands of people had died in North Hamgyong Province,\u201d the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The materials mark the first time that the provincial party committee has officially acknowledged or quantified the COVID-19 death toll, a move that has shocked people living in the province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK\u2019s source also reported that traders and smugglers are unhappy by the announcement that the authorities intend to tighten control over the Sino-North Korean border even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by S &amp; J<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20210524-4\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee held a meeting to evaluate the province&#8217;s COVID-19 control measures over the past year and to announce future efforts to control the spread of the disease.\u00a0 \u201cOn May 15, the provincial party committee held a gathering of party and administrative officials, along with business managers, from all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":41868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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