North Korea kills man by firing squad for violating Covid-19 rules
A citizen of North Korea has reportedly been executed in public for violating emergency COVID_19 quarantine measures in place in the country. According to the report, a citizen in North Korea was executed by firing squad, after the man was accused of smuggling with his Chinese business partners. The report said the public execution was ordered in an effort to scare other citizens into strict compliance with the emergency quarantine measures in the country. North Korea, which shares a border with China, has repeatedly claimed it is Covid-free but the government has implemented a number of severe lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of the virus, including a ban on travel between provinces. “Since the end of November, the Central Committee [of the Korean Workers’ Party] have ratcheted up the existing emergency quarantine measures to ‘ultra-high-level’ emergency quarantine measures,” a resident of North Pyongan province, on the border with China in the country’s north...