{"id":54726,"date":"2023-04-24T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54726"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:32:59","slug":"a-deep-dive-north-korea-revised-emergency-quarantine-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/a-deep-dive-north-korea-revised-emergency-quarantine-law\/","title":{"rendered":"A deep dive into N. Korea&#8217;s revised emergency quarantine law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK recently obtained the version of North Korea\u2019s emergency quarantine law that was amended in May 2022. Although it is not the latest version of the law, the acquisition is nonetheless significant as it provides insight into what the government focused on after officially acknowledging an outbreak of COVID-19 in May of last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOURTEEN MEASURES ADDED TO AMENDED LAW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through an analysis of the document, Daily NK confirmed that last May\u2019s amendment changed 18 articles from the immediately preceding version of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article that stands out the most is Article 61, which changed the name of the \u201cmaximum emergency system\u201d to the \u201cmaximum emergency epidemic prevention system,\u201d as well as spelling out what exactly the change entailed. North Korea transitioned to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system after it disclosed its first COVID-19 outbreak on May 12 of last year. The amendment of the law appears to have been focused on giving shape to legal measures to support the transition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, North Korea deleted most of the content in the original article and added a total of 14 measures related to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major measures included in the law are as follows: regional lockdowns; isolating fever patients and other individuals with suspicious symptoms; establishing measures to stabilize people\u2019s livelihoods; bolstering lockdown duties of the General Staff Department of the Korean People\u2019s Army, state security agencies and social security agencies; criminal punishments for people who sow chaos by spreading rumors and engaging in other socially harmful behavior; acquiring emergency supplies; the 24-operation of drug stores and drug stands; sanitizing and testing of wastewater and waste materials; and treating lax execution or mistaken execution of commands and orders as high treason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The law more clearly specified the duties and roles of agencies related to emergency quarantine efforts, while at the same time codified measures to prevent social chaos from lockdowns and other policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Articles of the law that pertained to the production, supply and management of medical supplies were also amended, as were articles regarding criminal punishments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Article 64, Clause 5, the wording changed from \u201crashly raising the price of a product or waiting for the price of a product to increase\u201d to \u201crashly raising the price of a product or medicine or waiting for the price of a product or medicine to increase.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Article 65, the authorities added the line, \u201cPeople who sold unlicensed homemade drugs, or sold fake drugs, defective drugs, or drugs that fail to adhere to sanitation or safety standards.&#8221; The article also was amended to state that money and medical supplies could be confiscated for violations of the law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54731\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/20230413_mdh_covid19_law.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/20230413_mdh_covid19_law.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/20230413_mdh_covid19_law-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/20230413_mdh_covid19_law-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/20230413_mdh_covid19_law-629x420.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the newly acquired copy of North Korea&#8217;s quarantine law, which was amended in May 2022. (Daily NK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New language was added to Article 67, which deals with the punishment of officials who violate the emergency quarantine order, including: \u201callowing unlicensed people to sell drugs, or failing to ensure the sanitation and safety of medicine\u201d and \u201crashly issuing prescriptions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The language appears to have been added to the law as part of efforts to eradicate the misuse of medicine, a situation that grew even worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, according to an analysis on causes of death released by the State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command via Korea Central TV last May, 32 of 68 deaths \u2014 or 47.1% \u2014 were caused by the side effects of drugs, the largest share of deaths as reported by the government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ENCOURAGING USE OF &#8220;NON-CONTACT PAYMENTS&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While amending the emergency quarantine law last May, North Korea also added language that encouraged the use of \u201cnon-contact payments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 26, Clause 14 was changed to, \u201cAll service units that take cash should adopt several electronic payment systems through mobile phones, oversee that they are working normally and take relevant measures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 64 includes an explicit call for fines \u201cwhen payments via electronic payment systems are refused without a justified reason.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This language was likely aimed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases through cash-based transactions. The law also encouraged the sterilization of cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korean-business-owners-unhappy-about-cash-sterilizer-mandate\/\">reported<\/a> in February that North Korean authorities mandated that shops install high-priced cash sterilizers, leading to complaints from shop staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea amended its emergency quarantine law once again last November after it declared &#8220;victory\u201d in its war against COVID-19. State-run media reported that on Nov. 15, a Permanent Commission Session of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly adopted the amended quarantine law. The report explained that the revision \u201csupplemented major issues that arose in strengthening the material and technical base in the quarantine and healthcare sectors with a view to quickly and actively responding to the infectious disease crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea and China. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/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\/20230417-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK recently obtained the version of North Korea\u2019s emergency quarantine law that was amended in May 2022. 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