정말로 김정은이는 전지전능 하신가 보다. 그가 손대는것은 전부가 성경구절같은 말씀이고, 또한 명령이기 때문이다. Covid-19전염병도, 김정은이의 말 한마디에 북한에는 환자 한명도 없다고 큰소리다.
북한 주민들은, 그런 Propaganda에 고개를 숙이면서도, 내막적으로는 냉소가 끝이지 않을 것이다.
그리고는 그화살을, 심심풀이 땅콩꺼내먹는식으로, 남한에 막가파식으로 비난을 쏟아낸다.
대남 모욕은 권력 핵심의 저급한 밑바닥까지 드러내야 할 정도로 김정은이 코너에 몰린 것 아니냐는 관측을 낳게 만든다. 어떤 국가든 정권이든 궁정 내부의 저열한 수준은 애써 감추는 게 일반적인 상식이다. 왕조와 다름없는 ‘극장(劇場)국가’의 김씨 정권에선 더더욱 그래 왔다. 아무리 상식 밖의 북한이라지만, 이른바 ‘백두공주’까지 나서 상스러운 막말 공세를 편 것은 그만큼 절박하다는 방증이 아닐 수 없다.
전문가들의 설명에 따르면, 오래전부터 병원 치료가 부족한 북한에서는 전염병이 돌면, 핵무기와 미사일개발 프로그람 때문에, 미국이 주도한 봉쇄정책으로 파산직전인 경제가 더 휘청거릴수가 많다고 설명한다.
바꾸어 얘기하면, 북한 주민들의 Coronavirus전염병 확산방지를 위한 신약품 개발이나, 병원시설이 열악할수밖에 없다는 뜻이고, 주민들의 건강보다는 전세계가 봉쇄하고있는 불법 핵개발, 미사일 개발에 국가의 모든 재원이 사용된다는 것이다.
마스크와 종이모자, 방역복장을 한 북한의 의사들, 과학자들 건강관리자들이 모여 신약개발, 공공교통의 전염방지 또는 더이상 주민들에게 전염되지않도록하는 현안들을 토의하고있는 장면을 북한 미디아가 계속적으로 공개 선전하고 있었다.
"국가 방역시스템에 역행에 반하는 모든 조치는 절대로 용납하지 않는다. 공직자들은 전염병의 확산가능성이 있는 모든 보도 채널과 공간을 차단하는 방법을 동원해야 한다." 오랫동안 주민들의 시야에서 멀어져 있었던 김정은이가 주민들앞에 나타나 명령한 내용이다 라고 국영방송이 보도한 것이다.
그런식으로 명령 한마디에 전염병 확산이 차단된다면, 중국, 러시아, 미국,일본, 한국을 포함한 전세계가 김정은 체제보다 훨씬 더 통신이나 의료체제가 훨씬 발달되 있는데도 확산되고 있는데....우습지 않은가.
그리고는, 북한에는 Novel Coronavirus환자가 전무 하다고 떠들어 댄다. 이를 믿을사람 있을까?
식량부족으로 먹거리가 없어 고생하는 북한 주민들과는 아랑곳없이, 엘리트 구룹은 이번 전염병 확산에서 살아남을수 있을 것이라는 전망이다.
"북한은, 고난의 행군때에는 2백3백만명이 굶어 죽었을때도, 김씨왕조의 리더쉽이 어떻게 북한주민들을 억압적으로 통치할수 있었던가를 이해하는것은, 정권이 주민들을 강압적으로 통치해왔다는 증거이다"라고 남북통일 서울연구협회의 최고분석가 '오 경섭'씨는 1990년대 북한의 기근을 상기하면서,설명하고있다.
"김정은에 대한 북한주민들의 불만족감은 계속 커질것이지만, 그것때문에 김정은이가 권좌에서 실각할 정도는 아닐것이다"라고 예측하기도 했다.
위의 사진은 지난 2월 28일, 김정은이가 북한군대의 훈련과정을 살펴보고 있는 장면으로, 병사들은 전부 Face Mask를 하고 있는데, 확진자가 한명도 없다고 큰소리다. 이를 점검하기위한 외부언론기자들의 접근은 엄격히 금지되여있다. 화면에 비친 희미한 표시는 "KCNA"로 보인다.
https://www.cp24.com/world/experts-question-n-korea-s-claim-of-no-covid-19-infections-1.4836497
북한 주민들은, 그런 Propaganda에 고개를 숙이면서도, 내막적으로는 냉소가 끝이지 않을 것이다.
그리고는 그화살을, 심심풀이 땅콩꺼내먹는식으로, 남한에 막가파식으로 비난을 쏟아낸다.
대남 모욕은 권력 핵심의 저급한 밑바닥까지 드러내야 할 정도로 김정은이 코너에 몰린 것 아니냐는 관측을 낳게 만든다. 어떤 국가든 정권이든 궁정 내부의 저열한 수준은 애써 감추는 게 일반적인 상식이다. 왕조와 다름없는 ‘극장(劇場)국가’의 김씨 정권에선 더더욱 그래 왔다. 아무리 상식 밖의 북한이라지만, 이른바 ‘백두공주’까지 나서 상스러운 막말 공세를 편 것은 그만큼 절박하다는 방증이 아닐 수 없다.
전문가들의 설명에 따르면, 오래전부터 병원 치료가 부족한 북한에서는 전염병이 돌면, 핵무기와 미사일개발 프로그람 때문에, 미국이 주도한 봉쇄정책으로 파산직전인 경제가 더 휘청거릴수가 많다고 설명한다.
바꾸어 얘기하면, 북한 주민들의 Coronavirus전염병 확산방지를 위한 신약품 개발이나, 병원시설이 열악할수밖에 없다는 뜻이고, 주민들의 건강보다는 전세계가 봉쇄하고있는 불법 핵개발, 미사일 개발에 국가의 모든 재원이 사용된다는 것이다.
마스크와 종이모자, 방역복장을 한 북한의 의사들, 과학자들 건강관리자들이 모여 신약개발, 공공교통의 전염방지 또는 더이상 주민들에게 전염되지않도록하는 현안들을 토의하고있는 장면을 북한 미디아가 계속적으로 공개 선전하고 있었다.
"국가 방역시스템에 역행에 반하는 모든 조치는 절대로 용납하지 않는다. 공직자들은 전염병의 확산가능성이 있는 모든 보도 채널과 공간을 차단하는 방법을 동원해야 한다." 오랫동안 주민들의 시야에서 멀어져 있었던 김정은이가 주민들앞에 나타나 명령한 내용이다 라고 국영방송이 보도한 것이다.
그런식으로 명령 한마디에 전염병 확산이 차단된다면, 중국, 러시아, 미국,일본, 한국을 포함한 전세계가 김정은 체제보다 훨씬 더 통신이나 의료체제가 훨씬 발달되 있는데도 확산되고 있는데....우습지 않은가.
그리고는, 북한에는 Novel Coronavirus환자가 전무 하다고 떠들어 댄다. 이를 믿을사람 있을까?
식량부족으로 먹거리가 없어 고생하는 북한 주민들과는 아랑곳없이, 엘리트 구룹은 이번 전염병 확산에서 살아남을수 있을 것이라는 전망이다.
"북한은, 고난의 행군때에는 2백3백만명이 굶어 죽었을때도, 김씨왕조의 리더쉽이 어떻게 북한주민들을 억압적으로 통치할수 있었던가를 이해하는것은, 정권이 주민들을 강압적으로 통치해왔다는 증거이다"라고 남북통일 서울연구협회의 최고분석가 '오 경섭'씨는 1990년대 북한의 기근을 상기하면서,설명하고있다.
"김정은에 대한 북한주민들의 불만족감은 계속 커질것이지만, 그것때문에 김정은이가 권좌에서 실각할 정도는 아닐것이다"라고 예측하기도 했다.
위의 사진은 지난 2월 28일, 김정은이가 북한군대의 훈련과정을 살펴보고 있는 장면으로, 병사들은 전부 Face Mask를 하고 있는데, 확진자가 한명도 없다고 큰소리다. 이를 점검하기위한 외부언론기자들의 접근은 엄격히 금지되여있다. 화면에 비친 희미한 표시는 "KCNA"로 보인다.
TOKYO -- In these days of infection and fear, a recent propaganda photo
sums up the image North Korea wants to show the world, as well as its
people: Soldiers with black surgical masks surround leader Kim Jong Un,
ensconced in a leather overcoat and without a mask as he oversees a
defiant military drill.
As a new and frightening virus closes in around it, North Korea presents itself as a fortress, tightening its borders as cadres of health officials stage a monumental disinfection and monitoring program.
That image of world-defying impregnability, however, may belie a brewing disaster.
North Korea, which has what experts call a horrendous medical infrastructure in the best of times, shares a porous, nearly 1,450-kilometre (900-mile) border with China, where the disease originated and has since rapidly spread around the world. The North's government has also long considered public reports on infectious disease - or, for that matter, anything that could hurt the ruling elite - matters of state secrecy.
This has raised fears that North Korea, which claims zero infections, may be vastly unprepared for a virus that is testing much more developed countries across the globe - and even that infections could already be exploding within its borders.
“Unfortunately, the international community has no idea if the coronavirus is spreading inside North Korea,” said a recent report by Jessica Lee, an East Asia expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think-tank in Washington. “The fact that we know nothing about the level of infection or deaths within North Korea is extremely problematic and, left unchanged, could have serious public health implications.”
North Korean media, meanwhile, are filled with self-described examples of ultra-vigilance - as well as a sense of urgency.
Calling its anti-virus campaign a matter of “national existence,” the North has banned foreign tourists, delayed the school year, quarantined hundreds of foreigners and thousands of locals who've travelled abroad, shut down nearly all cross-border traffic with China, intensified screening at entry points, and mobilized tens of thousands of health workers to monitor residents and isolate those with symptoms.
A parade of media photographs show North Korean doctors, scientists and health workers in masks, paper hats and protective clothing, discussing matters of science, or disinfecting public transportation, or planning ways to further protect citizens.
“No special cases must be allowed within the state anti-epidemic system,” Kim, emerging recently from a prolonged period out of the public spotlight to oversee a politburo meeting on the virus, said, according to state media. Officials must “seal off all the channels and space through which the infectious disease may find its way.”
On Monday, Kim's military fired unidentified projectiles into the sea, weapons tests apparently aimed, in part, at showing that all's well amid outside worries about an outbreak in the North.
Despite the bravado, there are rising doubts that North Korea has dodged the virus.
Some North Korea monitoring groups, which claim to have a network of sources inside the nation, recently said that there are virus patients and deaths in North Korea, a claim the South Korean government couldn't confirm.
“I'm 100% sure that North Korea already has infected patients,” said Nam Sung-wook, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Korea University who served as president of the Institute for National Security Strategy, a think-tank affiliated with South Korea's main spy agency.
If North Korea had an outbreak similar to what's happening in South Korea, the world's hardest-hit country aside from China, it would cause serious turmoil because of a chronic lack of medical supplies and medicine, Nam said.
“North Korea would be helpless,” he said.
Some analysts believe that North Korea's strong moves to shut down border areas with China, its only major ally and aid benefactor, signal that the virus has already spread into the nation from China, which has had more than 80,000 cases.
There is usually heavy border traffic between the two countries, and tens of thousands of North Koreans were believed to be working in China before a U.N. order for Beijing to send them back home expired in December. It's unknown how many of them have returned home.
There have been growing outside calls for North Korea to open up about what's going on inside its borders.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Tomas Ojea Quintana, urged North Korea to “allow full and unimpeded access to medical experts and humanitarian actors, and relax restrictions on access to information. Further isolation of the country is not the answer.”
Ojea Quintana said that many North Koreans, especially in the countryside, lack proper access to health services, water and sanitation, and that more than 43% of the population is undernourished.
The United States also expressed worry about North Korea's vulnerability to the viral outbreak and said it was ready to support efforts by aid organizations to contain the spread of the illness in the impoverished nation.
An epidemic in North Korea, which experts say has a chronic lack of medical supplies, could further shake an economy battered by U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program. That, in turn, could quicken the depletion of the North's foreign currency reserves by choking off income from tourism and smuggling.
Decreased trade with China could also dry up the goods going to North Korea's informal private markets, which have emerged as a big part of the national economy following the collapse of the state rationing system during a devastating famine in the 1990s, experts say.
And the country's intensified anti-virus efforts could potentially hamper Kim's ability to mobilize his people for labour on major development and tourist projects, said Lim Soo-ho, an analyst from South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy think-tank .
Despite a big economic hit to many North Koreans, however, the elite may survive a serious outbreak.
“North Korea has a powerful control over its people, and that was how it maintained its leadership when 2 to 3 million people died during `the arduous march period,”' Oh Gyeong-seob, an analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, said, referring to the North Korean euphemism for the 1990s famine.
“Public dissatisfaction with Kim Jong Un will grow, but not at a level that will deal him a critical blow,” Oh predicted.
Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
https://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/03/05/2020030502778.html
http://www.donga.com/news/Main/article/all/20200304/100012554/1
http://www.donga.com/news/Main/article/all/20200305/100013029/1
As a new and frightening virus closes in around it, North Korea presents itself as a fortress, tightening its borders as cadres of health officials stage a monumental disinfection and monitoring program.
That image of world-defying impregnability, however, may belie a brewing disaster.
North Korea, which has what experts call a horrendous medical infrastructure in the best of times, shares a porous, nearly 1,450-kilometre (900-mile) border with China, where the disease originated and has since rapidly spread around the world. The North's government has also long considered public reports on infectious disease - or, for that matter, anything that could hurt the ruling elite - matters of state secrecy.
This has raised fears that North Korea, which claims zero infections, may be vastly unprepared for a virus that is testing much more developed countries across the globe - and even that infections could already be exploding within its borders.
“Unfortunately, the international community has no idea if the coronavirus is spreading inside North Korea,” said a recent report by Jessica Lee, an East Asia expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think-tank in Washington. “The fact that we know nothing about the level of infection or deaths within North Korea is extremely problematic and, left unchanged, could have serious public health implications.”
North Korean media, meanwhile, are filled with self-described examples of ultra-vigilance - as well as a sense of urgency.
Calling its anti-virus campaign a matter of “national existence,” the North has banned foreign tourists, delayed the school year, quarantined hundreds of foreigners and thousands of locals who've travelled abroad, shut down nearly all cross-border traffic with China, intensified screening at entry points, and mobilized tens of thousands of health workers to monitor residents and isolate those with symptoms.
A parade of media photographs show North Korean doctors, scientists and health workers in masks, paper hats and protective clothing, discussing matters of science, or disinfecting public transportation, or planning ways to further protect citizens.
“No special cases must be allowed within the state anti-epidemic system,” Kim, emerging recently from a prolonged period out of the public spotlight to oversee a politburo meeting on the virus, said, according to state media. Officials must “seal off all the channels and space through which the infectious disease may find its way.”
On Monday, Kim's military fired unidentified projectiles into the sea, weapons tests apparently aimed, in part, at showing that all's well amid outside worries about an outbreak in the North.
Despite the bravado, there are rising doubts that North Korea has dodged the virus.
Some North Korea monitoring groups, which claim to have a network of sources inside the nation, recently said that there are virus patients and deaths in North Korea, a claim the South Korean government couldn't confirm.
“I'm 100% sure that North Korea already has infected patients,” said Nam Sung-wook, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Korea University who served as president of the Institute for National Security Strategy, a think-tank affiliated with South Korea's main spy agency.
If North Korea had an outbreak similar to what's happening in South Korea, the world's hardest-hit country aside from China, it would cause serious turmoil because of a chronic lack of medical supplies and medicine, Nam said.
“North Korea would be helpless,” he said.
Some analysts believe that North Korea's strong moves to shut down border areas with China, its only major ally and aid benefactor, signal that the virus has already spread into the nation from China, which has had more than 80,000 cases.
There is usually heavy border traffic between the two countries, and tens of thousands of North Koreans were believed to be working in China before a U.N. order for Beijing to send them back home expired in December. It's unknown how many of them have returned home.
There have been growing outside calls for North Korea to open up about what's going on inside its borders.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Tomas Ojea Quintana, urged North Korea to “allow full and unimpeded access to medical experts and humanitarian actors, and relax restrictions on access to information. Further isolation of the country is not the answer.”
Ojea Quintana said that many North Koreans, especially in the countryside, lack proper access to health services, water and sanitation, and that more than 43% of the population is undernourished.
The United States also expressed worry about North Korea's vulnerability to the viral outbreak and said it was ready to support efforts by aid organizations to contain the spread of the illness in the impoverished nation.
An epidemic in North Korea, which experts say has a chronic lack of medical supplies, could further shake an economy battered by U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program. That, in turn, could quicken the depletion of the North's foreign currency reserves by choking off income from tourism and smuggling.
Decreased trade with China could also dry up the goods going to North Korea's informal private markets, which have emerged as a big part of the national economy following the collapse of the state rationing system during a devastating famine in the 1990s, experts say.
And the country's intensified anti-virus efforts could potentially hamper Kim's ability to mobilize his people for labour on major development and tourist projects, said Lim Soo-ho, an analyst from South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy think-tank .
Despite a big economic hit to many North Koreans, however, the elite may survive a serious outbreak.
“North Korea has a powerful control over its people, and that was how it maintained its leadership when 2 to 3 million people died during `the arduous march period,”' Oh Gyeong-seob, an analyst at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, said, referring to the North Korean euphemism for the 1990s famine.
“Public dissatisfaction with Kim Jong Un will grow, but not at a level that will deal him a critical blow,” Oh predicted.
Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
https://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/03/05/2020030502778.html
http://www.donga.com/news/Main/article/all/20200304/100012554/1
http://www.donga.com/news/Main/article/all/20200305/100013029/1
https://www.cp24.com/world/experts-question-n-korea-s-claim-of-no-covid-19-infections-1.4836497
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