North Korea was one of the first to completely block all travel to and from China amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, and although state media has been reticent to reveal the extent to which the novel coronavirus is affecting the North Korean people, it’s likely having a severe toll.
Rob Lauler at Daily NK joins the NK News Podcast to talk about the impacts of the coronavirus, follows up on some startling reports out of the country, the state of international cooperation between the regime and the outside world, and how to tell fact from fiction when reporting on North Korea.
Rob Lauler is the English language editor at Daily NK and its parent organization the Unification Media Group.
About the podcast: The “North Korea News Podcast” is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by NK News, covering all things DPRK: from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field and insight from our very own journalists.