Kim Jong-un has built a new hospital amid reports that scores of North Korean soldiers have contracted the coronavirus despite the leader saying the country has no cases.
A source in the North's military said 180 soldiers had already died of the virus, with most deaths happening near the closed border with China, the Daily NK reported.
The dictator ordered the construction of a new hospital in the heart of the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang. Without any mention of the escalating crisis, the leader said: “When the general hospital is built, we will get another valuable asset with which to better protect the previous health and safety of our people." The state continues to maintain cases of COVID-19, despite 10s of thousands of cases in
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