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    Sue Mi Terry “Now is not the time to lift sanctions, either. Now, in fact, is the time to double down. If Biden wants to prevent North Korea from acting out, he needs to first provide the government with new incentives to talk-and that means new restrictions Washington can use as carrots. Biden, in other words, needs to take North Korean policy off autopilot and launch a proactive effort to deter Pyongyang. Otherwise, he risks encouraging an already emboldened Kim to stage a major provocation.” 13 hours ago
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Covid-19 in North Korea

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Cheong Seong-chang
Cheong Seong-chang

“So far, the North has reported one Omicron-related death, it is expected that the North will not accept aid from the outside world, especially the Western world, for a while. However, if the number of Omicron deaths soar, the North will have no option but to request China's assistance first, and then they may consider the Western world's aid if the situation gets out of control for the regime. Potential inter-Korean quarantine cooperation can help the two sides to lower military tensions and resume talks. South Korea may be able to provide a coronavirus-relief package to North Korea through China or other international organizations if it remains reluctant to receive help. Any inter-Korean cooperation in fighting COVID-19 will not be easy, because the South Korean government is now led by hawkish figures, who are describing North Korea's short range ballistic missile launch as a serious provocation.”

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Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute
13 May 2022 6 3
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Kee Park
Kee Park

“The country has been testing about 1,400 people each week, which is not nearly enough to survey 350,000 people with symptoms. What is more worrisome is the sheer number of symptomatic people. Using a conservative case fatality rate of 1% and assuming the surge is due to an Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korea can expect 3,500 deaths from this outbreak.”

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Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
13 May 2022 6 1
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Eric Gomez
Eric Gomez

“North Korea went into a period of very intense economic self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent virus spread. This put the economy under significant strain, plus sanctions were in effect, yet North Korea did not come to the negotiating table, which damages the theory that sanctions will force North Korea to the negotiating table via economic pressure. At this point, the only real place sanctions could go next is secondary sanctions against entities outside of North Korea.”

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Director of defence policy studies at the Cato Institute
21 Jan 2022 5 3
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Cheong Seong-chang
Cheong Seong-chang

“His extremely cursory mention of inter-Korean relations and foreign policy indicates that North Korea was not ready to come out for contacts with South Korea or the United States in the new year. Faced with the pandemic, North Korea is expected to continue to keep its borders shut, focusing on self-reliance and conducting only the minimum of essential trade with China.”

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Director of the Center for North Korean Studies at the Sejong Institute
02 Jan 2022 4 6
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Tomas Ojea Quintana
Tomas Ojea Quintana

“The worsening humanitarian situation could turn into a crisis and it is coinciding with a global creeping apathy about the plight of North Korea's people. Sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council should be reviewed and eased when necessary to both facilitate humanitarian and lifesaving assistance and to enable the promotion of the right to an adequate standard of living of ordinary citizens. People's access to food is a serious concern and the most vulnerable children and elderly are at risk of starvation. North Koreans should not have to choose between the fear of hunger and the fear of COVID-19. Essential medicines and medical supplies are in short supply and prices have increased several fold as they stopped coming in from China, and humanitarian organisations have been unable to bring in medicines and other supplies.”

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U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
07 Oct 2021 10 5
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Leif-Eric Easley
Leif-Eric Easley

“North Korea's amped up rhetoric against scaled down US-South Korea defence exercises appears to be more about domestic politics than signalling to Washington. The Kim [Kim Jong-un] regime is shifting blame for its struggles to restart the economy after a long, self-imposed pandemic lockdown. Pyongyang is also trying to pressure South Korean presidential candidates to express differences with US policy on sanctions and denuclearisation.”

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Professor at Ewha University in Seoul
13 Aug 2021 3 6
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Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un

“By neglecting important decisions of the party in its national emergency antivirus fight in preparations for a global health crisis, officials in charge have caused a grave incident that poses a huge crisis to the safety of the nation and its people. A major factor that hampers the execution of important tasks is inability and irresponsibility of senior officials. Party-wide fight should be carried out against ideological defects and all kinds of negative factors found among senior officials.”

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Leader of North Korea
30 Jun 2021 2 1
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