Evening Edition: Kim Jong-un Blames Party Officials For COVID Crisis

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is warning his people there is an approaching crisis related to COVID-19 and has scolded party officials saying they let this happen. North Korea had claimed to have avoided a coronavirus outbreak but the country has been suffering from a food shortage following a year of flooding, border shutdowns due to the pandemic and ongoing sanctions. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Daniel Hoffman, Former CIA Chief of Station & FOX News Contributor, about why the United States, and the rest of the world, is interested in what happens with the health of the North Korean citizens and their leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.3	Wednesday, June 30th, 2021. I'm Trey Yinks. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is
0:29.5	warning of a great crisis related to coronavirus.
0:32.8	North Korea was already under a great crisis due to their own malfeasance and corruption
0:38.0	and then COVID hit and that forced them to shut their borders with China,
0:41.8	and so whatever they were doing on the fly
0:44.0	to bypass the sanctions regime was no longer possible.
0:48.5	This is the Fox News rundown, evening addition. Evening Edition. After not being seen for weeks, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un now looks more frail than before.
1:02.0	Through state media he delivered a warning to the people of North Korea
1:05.9	about the COVID-19 pandemic.
1:08.0	This comes as analysts worry about what could be next for the Hermit country
1:11.9	if something happens to its leader?
1:13.6	Yeah, so first of all, I mean the hermit kingdom is one of the most isolated countries
1:18.1	on the planet and the information to which we would have access is so severely limited.
1:26.0	For more on this story, this is Daniel Hoffman, Fox News Contributor, and a former CIA station
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