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North Korea Launches Mass Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign (wsj.com) 40

North Korea has begun a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign in its border areas, according to South Korea's spy agency, becoming one of the world's final countries to embark on such a national rollout. From a report: North Korea and Eritrea, in east Africa, were the only remaining countries that hadn't started widespread vaccination distribution, the World Health Organization has said. After rejecting millions of doses from other countries last year, North Korea admitted to its first nationwide Covid-19 outbreak in May and declared victory in August. Then, earlier this month, leader Kim Jong Un said Covid-19 vaccines would be distributed starting in November. He cited findings from the country's antiepidemic experts that North Koreans who contracted Covid-19 in May and June would experience a decline in their antibody response starting in October.

During a Wednesday briefing to South Korean lawmakers, Seoul's spy agency said North Korea had begun distributing vaccines, though it didn't specify in which border areas. The lawmakers who were briefed didn't say where the vaccines had come from or when they were first distributed. Repeated lockdowns suggest North Korea hasn't eradicated the virus, the spy agency told lawmakers. Considering some recent resumption of flights and train operations between China and North Korea, it is most likely that China is supplying the vaccines, said Hong Min, of the Seoul-based Korea Institute for National Unification, a government-funded think tank.

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North Korea Launches Mass Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign

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  • No one has - it's something the human race has to live with.

  • by sdinfoserv ( 1793266 ) on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:26PM (#62922331)
    I'll bet the Supreme Leader got a really good, great, fantastic, best, deal on left over Omicron B vaccines.
  • by ickleberry ( 864871 ) <web@pineapple.vg> on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:26PM (#62922333) Homepage
    Drew the required molecule on a napkin after he got out of bed, just before hitting a load of golfballs in his back garden and getting 18 holes-in-one in a row on a golf course thats 100s of miles away.
  • Get the shot or be shot.

  • During the CV1984 mass-hysteria, the local city decided to dump sand and mulch in all the skate parks in town. Many other cities did this, too. They wanted to make sure young people didn't "congregate" outdoors in the UV with great ventilation. So, most kids didn't. Instead they went home and called their pals to come over and play video games, indoors with poor ventilation and no sterilizing UV. We skaters brought our own shovels, brooms, and wheelbarrows. We cleaned the park up ourselves (the city never e
    • I'll never forget it.

      Yes you will, just as soon as the people who keep feeding you outrage find something new for you to get angry about.
      There's an election coming up in America, so dollars to donuts it'll be something about that.

    • by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:24PM (#62922617)

      I'll never forget it.

      I'll never forget all the selfish whiny little bitches who could not make the smallest sacrifices to help protect their fellow citizens. Certainly a low point in our history.

      • Ya except it turns out you were wrong and no one was protected from anything at anytime...
        • Ya except it turns out you were wrong and no one was protected from anything at anytime...

          We know which countries did well and which ones not so much during the last few years. We will be analyzing for some time into the future to determine which measures worked well and which ones did not to be sure. Pretty safe to say doing nothing will compare poorly to most everything else though, sorry. We learned shit about contagions back in the 1300s that you still have issues with. How backwards is that?

          • Ya except it turns out you were wrong and no one was protected from anything at anytime...

            We know which countries did well and which ones not so much during the last few years.

            Oh really? Why haven't you booked your flight to China like yesterday then? Hell, they've only lost 5,200 to COVID in all this, so stop being so damn cruel to the rest of us and tell us their secrets to survival! By the numbers, they're kicking everyone's asses with their response. (Pay no attention to urn sales. That's "normal".)

            We will be analyzing for some time into the future to determine which measures worked well and which ones did not to be sure.

            You will be analyzing what you're allowed to see and analyze. As per Fauci and the rest of the vaccine vendors protecting their Greed. Now get in line for your annual foreve

            • Right. All the world's governments are in on a big conspiracy orchestrated by Big Pharma. Even apparently North Korea LOL. Bill Gates, George Soros and the Illuminati are probably in on it too. And lizard people, what is a good conspiracy without them?

              Myself, I already get a flu shot every year, it is nice to live in a modern civilization where we have such things. I have no problem with what will eventually likely be a yearly COVID shot as well, in fact I just got my new bivalent booster ahead of t
        • And how would a selfish whiny little bitch know that?

  • When I started reading the subject, I honestly expected it to end with "a short-range ballistic missile into the sea near Korea."
  • by VeryFluffyBunny ( 5037285 ) on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:19PM (#62922473)
    ...to work out an effective way to remove Bill Gates' mind control chips & replace them with more advanced N. Korean mind control AI nanobots.
  • Kim Jung Un has a better (albeit delayed) Covid response than the republican party.

    • Fortunately the previous prez ensured that the vaccines were created for Brandon to roll out, but even with a mind control teleprompter Brandon cant remember shit.
    • Kim Jung Un has a better (albeit delayed) Covid response than the republican party.

      Good that you're heaping praise on their leader. Should you talk badly, you might find you and three generations of your family sitting in a prison work camp for life.

      Tell me again how Republicans bad, Kim Jung Un good. I'm sure he's being completely honest about death statistics as he always has too.

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