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SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and other senior officials prepared aid to send to 800 families suffering from an unidentified intestinal epidemic, state media reported on Friday (June 17), as the country also battles its first Covid-19 outbreak. North Korea revealed this week it was facing an 'acute enteric epidemic' on top of a weeks-long outbreak of Covid-19....

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sends home-prepared medicines to households in Haeju City in this photo released by the country's Korean Central News Agency on June 16, 2022.SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and other senior officials prepared aid to send to 800 families suffering from an unidentified intestinal epidemic, state media reported on Friday , as the country also battles its first Covid-19 outbreak.

"The officials... prepared medicines, foodstuff and daily necessities needed for the treatment of the epidemic and stable life to render aid to the people in Haeju City and Kangryong County ," the Korea Central News Agency said. On Thursday, an official at South Korea's Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean affairs said Seoul is monitoring the outbreak, suspected to be cholera or typhoid.

 

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