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China is North Korea's biggest trade partner and close ally. Beijing: China said Thursday it was ready to "fully support" North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official Covid case and declared a national emergency. North Korea, which imposed a rigid blockade of its borders at the start of the pandemic in 2020, had not previously reported any Covid cases. But samples taken from patients with fevers in Pyongyang "coincided with Omicron BA.2 variant", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday, as leader Kim Jong Un and top officials announced they would implement...
