Asia Today: Kim urges North Koreans to keep up virus fight

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North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis.'

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People wearing masks walk in the Ryomyong street in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday, July 3, 2020. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis,” state media said Friday.

Despite the warning, Kim reaffirmed North Korea’s claim to not have had a single case of COVID-19, telling a ruling party meeting Thursday that the country has “thoroughly prevented the inroad of the malignant virus” despite the worldwide health crisis. Experts say the country’s self-imposed lockdown is hurting an economy already battered by stringent U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program.

The agency said Kim sharply criticized inattentiveness among officials and violations of emergency anti-virus rules and warned that a “hasty relief of anti-epidemic measures will result in unimaginable and irretrievable crisis.”

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The AP propping up dictators again

You know it’s bad when North Korea’s leader sounds better than ours!

Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa

Body double, still don’t think it’s Kim Jong Un

That time when you realize the worst leader on the planet is better than the leader of your own country.

He needs to have a conversation with his very good friend Donald Trump about handling the situation

North Korea has been on lockdown for 70 years. Who’s laughing now! /s

Translation- if you catch civid you are treated like medical waste

I have friends in a lot of poor countries, it is amazing how their govs all just listen to science.

I'm shocked that Kim Jong Un has better mental faculties than Donald Trump to make such a qualified decision! Uh,,,But good for his people.😣😏

Wow I want a president like that one day

He looks great in white .

When did Kim become more intelligent than POTUS ? Living in the upside down

Thought he was in a vegetative state and his sister ran the country now? 2020 is one mind-screw of a year

Are you telling me he’s a better leader than Trump? 🤯

Kim is handling it better than Don

JFC, even Kim Jong Un gets it. Our President SUCKS.

Sadly, the US is a great example of this 🤦🏻‍♀️

Um, ok?

So he IS smarter than trump!!!

ah a voice of reason

😂 PR stunt-look at me, look at me! Look what I can do! Stuuarrrt!

North Korean leader has more sense than Trump 😂😂😂 America is doomed

Well when you round up all the infected and summary execute them I’m sure it’s easy to contain it

that awkward moment when you realize than an evil dictator is a better leader of his country than your government.....

Leadership we actually need right now

Virus likely spreading Kim’s afraid of a hit to his credibility

He’s alive?!?

Wow Kim jong making more sense than trump.

So, North Korea has more responsible leadership than the United States. How far we’ve fallen.

Hate to say this but is he smarter than 45🥴🥴🥴

Interesting to see how Trump's buddies are addressing this.

Ghost Kim.

Unimaginable crisis: bad haircuts for all N. Koreans.

I thought this guy was dead...

BarackWouldHaveDoneBetter

That time Kim Jong Un was more reasonable and lucid than the POTUS.

Wow, who would have thunk it? Kim figured out the best way to not get the virus is to have everyone be vigilant. If they don’t pass it around, he & his sister probably won’t get it. They also won’t get hit as hard financially. Would T listen to him?

Thought you said he was dead

sure but he also murdered his own uncle with a canon so im not sure why we’re reporting on him with such care & nostalgia

And another:

Kim Jong Un Trump

Well and he shot the guys on the train that disobeyed his order ... I'm sure that helped.

He lives!

Thought this guy was dead...yet he’s somehow still more competent than Trump TrumpLiesAmericansDie

Smarter than trump. Hair just as goofy though.

There you go trump, maybe you’ll follow his concerns

Especially for a country with little to no medical infrastructure

C'mon DJKimJ. The Fresh Prince block and fade do. ... is a don't.

Seriously how is North Korea handling this better than us!?!?

look, Kim don't kill protesters, he even din't use army or gas, or anything, he really cares about health state of his nation. who is a real evil in this world?

Sad, when it seems he cares more for his citizens then POTUS cares about us.

I thought it was Trump

See realDonaldTrump even Kim is more clued up than you. Probably why he laughs at you - as does the rest of the world. This is a tragedy for the USA and will take decades to recover from.

Translation: The North Koreans sent infected people and their families to Gulag. See, nobody gets sick in North Korea.

BabyYouraFirework

At least he believes there is a virus!

Kim Jong Un demonstrates he has more common sense about the safety of his people than Trump. Nothing surprises me at this point.

Urged, has anyone even officially seen this nutjob since he was last presumed dead?

Such a kind, gentle man

I read months ago that he had a virus patient executed. That's a way to prevent the spread...he's evil enough to do that

Oop he got the COVID lbs too Yikes

WOW! Look at how high this guy can raise BOTH HANDS AND ARMS AT THE SAME TIME! Is he available to become 'Leader of the Free World'? Because God knows our 'Christian' nation could use a man like that! RemoveTrumpNOW before Putin orders more US soldiers killed.

Everyone's oneuping Trump

Poor fella looks like he's starving.

Predictably, the loud Twitter minority of leftist idiots now embrace Kim because their limited brain tells them orange man bad.

I thought that he was dead.

You think the pic is real KimJongUn ?

How trump looked when he was briefed on COVID... “Rona who? No Mike her name was Stormy...”

Even he gets it...

Someone's gotta Photoshop side turntables up in here. Perfection

It seems the crazy radical Supreme leaders are not in North Korea after all.... For all the things western media said about him every time he speaks he sounds a lot more reasonable than some of your presidents...

Rumor was this guy passed🤔

ProjectLincoln Can someone please ask Kim to have a word with the dotard.

So he died and has been resurrected in white and now makes sense? 2020 is getting fucking wild...

Will WHO congratulate Kim for this news?

When Kim Jong-Il Jr. has more common sense than Trump...

Better leader than trump

Too much fried sugar dough there Kim

He didnt die?

an absolute north korean king 🤴👑

I swear this idiot left us.. lots of makeup I’d say .

He appears to be alive, healthy and just returning from the spa.

Leader loved,the coronavirus is.lethal and not matter who is it attack,sorry,tell you,there is not exception,sure,might be in the list of infected

Is it just me or does his haircut create the optical illusion that his head is actually dimensionally larger so he doesn’t look as obese as he actually is? Because he’s still a despot and this bs statement doesn’t improve his standing just because he *sounds* better than DT. 1/2

That’s closing the barn door after the horse got out kind of talk. Meh.

It's very important. The world is knocking at North Koreas door. Come for the oppression stay because you've been poisoned.

Point?

So he can talk from beyond the grave?

Covid is the biggest hoax in human history.

It’s nice to see he’s finally starting to care about HIS citizens since he was murdering them before.

Surprise, Kim Jong-un is a better leader than Trump. Who would've ever thought such a thought! realDonaldTrump TraitorTrumpTaliban TrumpMentallyUnfit

NK Covid Poster 'You catch it and we catch you!'

Is this really Kim Jong Un?

Imagine Kim Jung Un caring more about the coronavirus than trump. 2020 keeps having major plot twists.

Even he's making America look like fools

More leadership than trump 😂

When Kim Jong Un has more sense than the guy in the White House...

He's officially handling it better than Trump.

Or did he?.... :-/

Why does he look healthier than most Americans?

He looks good in white. He should do it more often.

It’s sad that even Kim Jong Un is taking this more serious than Trump

More on top of it than our President, for sure.

damn—is Kim more worried about his people than Trump?

So even this guy gets it?

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