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Splendid Isolation: North Korea and COVID-19 | |
Victor Cha | |
2020-04-30 | |
出版年 | 2020 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | Splendid Isolation: North Korea and COVID-19April 30, 2020 While the world contends with over two million people afflicted by the COVID-19 virus, North Korea appears to live in splendid isolation from the virus. The regime claims that it has no confirmed cases and has offered to help China in dealing with its pandemic. But North Korea is the most opaque regime and little said by the government can be taken at face value. As Sue Terry argues, it is hard to imagine that North Korea has no cases of COVID-19 given the unique transmission vector from China and its geographic location, sandwiched between the two earliest hotspots for the pandemic. Should the virus have made its way into North Korea, the public health risks are real given the decrepit state of its public health infrastructure.Given the absence of any epidemiological studies in North Korea, researchers are left guessing about the true state of conditions inside of the country. CSIS created a unique dataset chronicling actions taken by North Korea in response to the last two major pandemics, Ebola (2014) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (2015). We then compared these findings with NK Pro’s study of North Korea's behavior during COVID-19. Key Points
This is a joint product by the CSIS Korea Chair and NK Pro of the Korea Risk Group. |
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来源平台 | Center for Strategic & International Studies |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/250018 |
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