North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders to prevent virus: US

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North Korean authorities have reportedly issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the coronavirus entering the country from China.

The impoverished North -- whose crumbling health system would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak -- has not confirmed a single case of the disease that has swept the world since first emerging in China, the North's key ally.

The North introduced a new"buffer zone, one or two kilometers up on the Chinese border," Abrams told an online conference organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Thursday. The isolated country is also grappling with the aftermath of Typhoon Maysak, with its state media reporting more than 2,000 houses have been destroyed or inundated.

 

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