North Korean Man ‘Shot Dead’ After Being Suspected Of Having Coronavirus
A North Korean official that went from China and returned to his country was executed and shot dead after being suspected with the viral disease of Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19.
A North Korean official that was not identified came from the COVID-19 outbreak centre China and went back to the country wherein he was quarantined before officially returning to North Korea.
Reports said that the official insisted on going to a public bathroom even while he was under quarantine. After this, the quarantined official was reportedly shot dead after risking the spread of the viral disease in the country.
This claim has been widely shared on social media, despite the story being unverifiable.
The story appears in the Singapore version of the International Business Times website, headlined “North Korea's first confirmed Coronavirus COVID 19 patient shot dead: report”, saying that the country's leader Kim Jong-un “sanctioned the execution of the first North Korean patient tested positive for the deadly strain of the virus”.
It's based on a tweet by Twitter user @Secret_Beijing, who describe themselves as a “social observer and analyst about China and beyond”.
The tweet's author does not say what their source for the report might be, but its spread shows that the hunger for sensational news from the secretive country is as great as ever.
https://twitter.com/Secret_Beijing/status/1232336176175960064
There are no other details, and requests for a source by other Twitter users have not been answered.
One of these claims suggests a trade official was executed for breaking quarantine.
With The North Korean Government never being likely to confirm or deny such rumours, the story will probably spread – virus-like – around a world media hungry for North Korea stories.
