North Korean called  latest party meeting amid pandemic, heavy rains

•  on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over another meeting of the governing party to tighten discipline.
• As Pyongyang confronts an intestinal epidemic outbreak following a wave of COVID infections, Kim has been hosting a number of party meetings recently.
• The early start of the rainy season has added concerns over the agricultural output in a country already experiencing protracted food shortages.

As Pyongyang continues to battle the COVID-19 outbreak and prepares for probable flood damage from heavy rains, state media said on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over another meeting of the governing party to tighten discipline.

The Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Committee Secretariat convened an expanded meeting on Monday to address “enhancing and readjusting the work system of Party guiding organs at all levels,” according to the North’s official KCNA.

State media did not go into detail about how the party structure was changed, but Kim had previously ordered maintaining discipline in response to “abuse of power and bureaucracy shown among some Party officials” during a secretariat meeting that took place roughly two weeks ago.

As Pyongyang confronts an intestinal epidemic outbreak following a wave of COVID infections, Kim has been hosting a number of party meetings recently. The early start of the rainy season has added concerns over the agricultural output in a country already experiencing protracted food shortages.

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According to KCNA, “farm villages all over the country are making an effort to protect paddy rice from downpour during the rainy season.”

The KCNA reported that the nation has been engaged in “ideological work” to “inform the masses of the validity and scientific accuracy of the emergency anti-epidemic policies enforced by the Party and the state” in an apparent effort to foster internal unity in the face of the back-to-back disease outbreaks.

The North claims that the COVID wave is beginning to subside, but experts believe that the statistics made public through government-run media may be underreported.

On Tuesday, 6,710 more people in North Korea reported having feverish symptoms, bringing the total number of fever patients since late April to about 4.73 million.

Due to an apparent shortage of testing kits, Pyongyang has started publicising the number of fever patients each day without designating them as COVID patients.

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