China Gave COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate to N. Korea's Kim, US Analyst Says


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China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a U.S. analyst said Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources. Harry Kazianis, a North Korea expert at the Center for the National Interest think tank in Washington, said the Kims and several senior North Korean officials had been vaccinated. It was unclear which company had supplied its drug candidate to the Kims and whether it had proven to be safe, he added. FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this undated photo released Nov. 16,...