{"id":110486,"date":"2020-07-25T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-a-suspected-covid-19-case"},"modified":"2020-07-25T23:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:43:40","slug":"north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-a-suspected-covid-19-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-a-suspected-covid-19-case","title":{"rendered":"North Korea declares state of emergency due to a suspected COVID-19 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-a-suspected-covid-19-case.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after one person in the country was suspected of being positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, local time, state news agency KCNA reported North Korean leader <a class=\"\" data-nid=\"440450\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong Un<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumb_100\/public\/kimjongun_041819getty.jpg?itok=vsbNLGLs\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" \/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong Un<\/a><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/509051-north-korea-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-a-suspected-covid-19-case\">North Korea declares state of emergency due to a suspected COVID-19 case<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/507461-pompeo-downplays-chance-of-new-summit-with-north-korea\">Pompeo downplays chance of summit with North Korea this year<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/506992-juan-williams-trumps-silence-on-russian-bounties-betrays-america\">Juan Williams: Trump\u2019s silence on Russian bounties betrays America<\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kim-jong-un\">MORE<\/a> convened an emergency politburo meeting after a person who defected to South Korea three years ago was \u201csuspected to have been infected with the vicious virus.\u201d The person is reported have returned to the North Korean border city of Kaesong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-northkorea\/north-koreas-kim-says-covid-19-could-be-said-to-have-entered-the-country-kcna-idUSKCN24Q0TC\">Reuters reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim declared a state of emergency and imposed a lockdown in Kaesong, reportedly calling it a \u201ccritical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after one person in the country was suspected of being positive for COVID-19. On Sunday, local time, state news agency KCNA reported North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Kim Jong UnNorth Korea declares state of emergency due to a suspected COVID-19 case Pompeo downplays chance of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}