Since the end of December, North Korea has quarantined and released 25,905 people, 382 of them foreigners, Salvador said. A major coronavirus outbreak may cause a humanitarian disaster because of North Korea's broken public health-care system and lack of medical supplies. But North Korea has never been transparent about whether it has such a capacity and the will to do so." More than 33,000 North Koreans have escaped to South Korea over the past 22 years for political and economic reasons, but only a handful have returned to North Korea. Police said the man was questioned in June on an allegation that he had sexually assaulted a female North Korean refugee.

Source: CBC News August 06, 2020 13:18 UTC