SEOUL — The United States will seriously consider helping North Korea contain the spread of the coronavirus if it requests such assistance, Robert O’Brien, US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, said Monday.
“They (North Korea) have been reticent to ask for outside help for things in the past but if they did we would certainly look at that very seriously,” O’Brien said in an interview with 19FortyFive, a website on global affairs.
He said Pyongyang appears to have avoided a mass outbreak with “draconian policies” like lockdowns and border closures. A week earlier, the North, which still claims zero COVID-19 cases, suspended all tr…
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