A man who recently swam back to North Korea after defecting years ago – leading Kim Jong Un to place a border city on lockdown over fears he had the coronavirus – isn’t actually carrying the disease, the South revealed Monday. CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGEThe man reportedly was identified after South Korean military officials found a bag he is believed to have left behind during his escape. North Korean state media had reported Sunday that a suspected coronavirus patient inside their country is a runaway who fled to South Korea three years ago before illegally crossing the border into the North early last week. But the Kaesong lockdown is the first such known measure taken in a North Korean city to stem the pandemic. North Korean continues to insist it has zero confirmed coronavirus cases -- a claim that many outside experts suspect is false.

Source: Fox News July 27, 2020 15:11 UTC