{"id":33559,"date":"2021-06-30T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/north-korea-covid-outbreak-fears-after-kim-jong-un-warns-of-huge-crisis-in-antivirus-fight"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:35:59","slug":"north-korea-covid-outbreak-fears-after-kim-jong-un-warns-of-huge-crisis-in-antivirus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33559","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Covid-19 outbreak fears after Kim Jong-un warns of \u2018huge crisis\u2019 in \u2018antivirus fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader speaks of a grave incident and sacks officials for neglecting duties in fighting \u2018global health crisis\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has sacked several senior party officials over a \u201cgrave\u201d coronavirus incident that had threatened public safety, fuelling speculation that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> has breached the country\u2019s defences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn neglecting important decisions by the party that called for organisational, material and science and technological measures to support prolonged anti-epidemic work in face of a global health crisis, the officials in charge have caused a grave incident that created a huge crisis for the safety of the country and its people,\u201d the state-run KCNA news agency quoted Kim as telling a meeting of the ruling party\u2019s politburo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/north-korea-covid-outbreak-fears-after-kim-jong-un-warns-of-huge-crisis-in-antivirus-fight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader speaks of a grave incident and sacks officials for neglecting duties in fighting \u2018global health crisis\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has sacked several senior party officials over a \u201cgrave\u201d coronavirus inc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559\/revisions\/33577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}