North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders at Chinese border to prevent coronavirus entering: US, East Asia


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WASHINGTON (AFP) - North Korean authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the coronavirus entering the country from China, according to the commander of United States forces in the South. The impoverished North - whose crumbling health system would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak - has not confirmed a single case of the disease that has swept the world since first emerging in China, the North's key ally. Pyongyang closed its border with China in January to try to prevent contamination, and in July, state media said it had raised its state of emergency to the maximum...