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North Koreans 'starving' after closing borders to China to tackle coronavirus

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closed its borders with China, supposedly in a bid to tackle the deadly coronavirus. Although the authoritarian regime has remained tight-lipped about the potentially life-threatening bug and is yet to report a single case, a UN rights expert has called for urgent action over citizens' suffering.

The United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at "widespread food shortages and malnutrition" in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border closure with China and strict quarantine measures against Covid-19.

Tomas Ojea Quintana, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea, urged the UN Security Council to reconsider sanctions imposed on the isolated country over its.

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