In China, the fight against covid-19 is still high on the agenda and virtually everything is being done to prevent the spread of the virus. Now a theory has been launched in the country where it is suspected that the virus that causes covid-19 blew in from North Korea to the Chinese border town of Dandong.
One of the reasons for these suspicions is that covid-19 cases in Dandong have increased more than in other cities in China, despite the fact that there is a strict quarantine in Dandong, a so-called “lockdown”. Chinese authorities have previously urged residents of Dandong who have windows facing North Korea to keep them closed when it blows from the east. Machines are also said to have been set up that are believed to monitor the air at the Yalu border river, machines that assessors believe can analyze whether the air from North Korea contains covid-19 infection.
While China is worried about inadvertently importing covid-19 infection from North Korea, North Korea believes that its arch-enemy South Korea is deliberately trying to infect North Koreans with covid-19. According to North Korea’s infection control center, a soldier and a child were infected with covid-19 when they were in contact with a “foreign object” near the border with South Korea. Exactly what this “foreign object” must have been is not stated.
It is already known that South Korean activists sometimes send balloons to North Korea with information in the form of airports and USB sticks. However, it is unclear whether it is these balloons that North Korea’s infection control center considers “foreign objects”. The North Korean news agency KNCA is now urging North Korean residents to “vigilantly deal with alien things coming by wind and other climate phenomena and balloons in the areas along the demarcation line and borders” writes The Guardian.
South Korea’s Minister for a United Korea says there is no possibility that the corona virus would have come to North Korea in balloons. Experts are also skeptical of the claim as the risk of the virus spreading through objects is relatively small.
Below is a slightly older feature that shows what it might look like when South Korean activists send propaganda balloons across the North Korean border.
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