{"id":52953,"date":"2022-10-07T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T06:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52953"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:32:59","slug":"north-korea-hands-down-advisory-people-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-hands-down-advisory-people-wear-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea hands down an &#8220;advisory&#8221; for people to wear masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting Oct. 1, North Korea began mandating that all people wear masks, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities are calling it an \u201cadvisory,\u201d but a source said that because the authorities are enforcing the advisory in everyday life, the measure amounts to a virtual mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source told Daily NK on Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Health issued an order on Sept. 26 to provincial people\u2019s committees nationwide titled, \u201cFourth Quarter Instructions for Thorough Compliance with Quarantine Regulations Across All of Society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe order includes an advisory for the entire society to wear masks from Oct. 1,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source added that the authorities originally pushed to implement the virtual mask mandate from November, but instead did so from Oct. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u2014 speaking before the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly on Sept. 8 \u2014 had called on officials to advise all people to wear masks from November, the authorities were going to issue an order to that effect, but moved the advisory ahead by a month, said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This suggests the authorities are implementing a realistic quarantine policy to deal with COVID-19 variants and seasonal flu outbreaks in North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the source said, \u201cMany people in Pyongyang were quarantined at home as fever patients after the Sept. 9 event [to mark the anniversary of the founding of the North Korean government], and the Ministry of Public Health believes the disease spread faster because nobody wore masks during the event.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the Ministry of Public Health\u2019s order \u201cadvises\u201d mask wearing, the authorities perceive the advisory to be a mandate, and are reportedly telling people that masks are obligatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43849\" style=\"width: 929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4.jpg\" alt=\"hospital task forces\" width=\"929\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4.jpg 929w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/origin_\ub9c8\uc2a4\ud06c\ucc29\uc6a9\ud55c\u5317\ud3c9\uc591\uc2dc\uc778\ubbfc\ubcd1\uc6d0\uc758\ub8cc\uc9c4\ub4e4-759x420.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Physicians in Pyongyang&#8217;s People&#8217;s Hospital No. 2 wearing masks. (Rodong Sinmun)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Pyongyang, the authorities have ordered mask enforcement teams in each district to enforce mask wearing at marketplaces, subway entrances, underground passageways and bus stops through Oct. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople will probably get used to mandatory mask wearing during that time,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even after declaring victory in its war against COVID-19 during a meeting to review national quarantine efforts in August, North Korea&#8217;s leadership has reportedly been advising residents of regions along the China-North Korea border and DMZ to wear masks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the move to mandate masks nationwide from Oct. 1, the country appears to be retreating once again from efforts to get back to normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the source said the Ministry of Public Health told public health, healthcare and quarantine bodies at all levels that August\u2019s meeting to review national quarantine efforts \u201cdid not declare quarantine efforts over, but reviewed the results, experiences and lessons of quarantine efforts so far and decided a new quarantine policy direction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry complained that despite this, people already consider the pandemic over, resulting in poor compliance with regulations. \u201cGoing forward, complacency and carelessness in quarantine efforts will be forbidden,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry is reportedly calling on public health, healthcare and quarantine officials to avoid slacking off \u201ceven for a moment\u201d and to work on crafting quarantine and treatment plans for infectious diseases, noting that \u201cabout 100,000 patients nationwide still undergo a repeat cycle of treatment and recovery at national quarantine wards and at home.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said within the Ministry of Public Health, the authorities stress that the mask advisory is a task officials will \u201chave to permanently master in the fourth quarter\u201d as \u201c[North Korean]-style scientific quarantine efforts.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20221005-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Oct. 1, North Korea began mandating that all people wear masks, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 North Korean authorities are calling it an \u201cadvisory,\u201d but a source said that because the authorities are enforcing the advisory in everyday life, the measure amounts to a virtual mandate. 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