Coronavirus could kill as many as three million people in North Korea and Kim Jong-un cares little about an impending humanitarian disaster, a defector has warned.
Kim Myong has suggested the Covid-19 death toll in the secretive country could rival that of a four-year famine known as the Arduous March.
Kim Jong-un's regime insists it is free of coronavirus - a claim rejected by the international community - despite tens of thousands of cases in neighbouring China, where the outbreak began, and South Korea.
There are unverified claims that North Korea executed its first confirmed coronavirus patient by firing squad and a report in March claimed Covid-19 may have killed about 200 soldiers during a major outbreak.