The Russian Embassy in Pyongyang said today that the situation in the North Korean capital Pyongyang has become very difficult after radical measures were taken to fight the outbreak.
North Korea, a closed centralized state that has yet to confirm a single confirmed case, has closed its borders, sealed off several entire cities and adopted a range of other methods to try to avert an outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (Chinese communist virus, COVID-19).
The Russian Embassy said in a Facebook post that fewer than 300 foreigners remain in Pyongyang as diplomats from various countries have fled the city.
The posting said, “Not everyone can endure the unprecedented severe restrictions, the most severe shortages of basic goods, including medicines, and the inability to solve health problems.”
The U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea warned last month that measures to combat the Epidemic have caused “severe economic hardship” in the country plagued by Food insecurity.
Impoverished North Korea, which has long struggled to feed its people due to international sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, faces chronic food shortages.
North Korea’s embargo against the epidemic has cancelled all flights in and out of the country and all cross-border trains.
Neighboring Russia has close ties with North Korea and maintains a significant diplomatic presence.
Eight Russian diplomats and their families, the youngest of whom was a 3-year-old girl, returned Home from North Korea in February using a railroad trolley because of restrictions on epidemic prevention in Pyongyang.
This video of the trolley went viral on the Internet, with the cart filled with suitcases and women, pushing across the border railroad bridge and into Russia.
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