Lee Tae-kyung

China-Style Covid Lockdowns Risk Deepening North Korean Crisis

SEOUL — When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, acknowledged an outbreak of Covid-19 last week, he ordered his government to learn from ​China’s “success” fighting the virus​.​ ​What he did not say is that an attempt to follow China’s pandemic response could send his impoverished country toward catastrophe. China has used strict lockdowns, mass testing […]