{"id":48776,"date":"2021-06-23T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48776"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:31","slug":"north-korea-national-institute-hygiene-inspection-elevated-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-national-institute-hygiene-inspection-elevated-bureau\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s National Institute of Hygiene Inspection elevated to a bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities recently elevated the Ministry of Public Health\u2019s National Institute of Hygiene Inspection to a &#8220;bureau&#8221; with a vastly strengthened role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that the North Korean government, under the belief that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue into the future, ordered the elevation of the institute\u2019s status on June 14. The authorities also ordered that the newly minted \u201cNational Bureau of Hygiene Inspection\u201d be expanded so it can exercise authority at \u201cseveral magnitudes greater than in the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While ordering the establishment of the new bureau, North Korean leaders demanded that everything be done to prevent the coronavirus from \u201cinfiltrating\u201d the country \u201cthrough objects from the outside world\u201d as \u201cnobody can predict when the global COVID-19 pandemic will end, and [because] another pandemic could occur in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country\u2019s leadership pointed out that the new bureau should first and foremost stop government agencies and officials from \u201cunconsciously committing random acts\u201d as viruses could enter the country and cause irreversible disasters \u201cbecause of objects [goods or products] from the outside world [the country] 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machinery across the China-North Korea border by designating the wares \u201cnecessary items.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities have also broadened the scope of the new bureau&#8217;s activities, allowing it to thoroughly manage hygiene inspection efforts in the service sector and at foodstuff factories, processing plants, and other factories and enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the government further noted that because it remains unknown when the global COVID-19 pandemic will end, \u201cwe must tightly close the border, and hygiene inspection workers in border cities must strengthen their propaganda efforts so that all locals take part in hygiene and quarantine efforts with a sense of ownership.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source noted that the leadership stressed that \u201cworkers and ordinary people who are lax in hygiene and quarantine efforts 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