‘High chances’ virus-infected defector returned to North Korea via border: Seoul

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (KCNA-Yonhap)

SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Herald/ANN) - South Korea’s military said Sunday that someone may have crossed the inter-Korean border to North Korea, supporting the North’s claim that a defector returned home a week ago with symptoms of COVID-19.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said earlier in the day that the homecoming had prompted an emergency Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, presided over by its leader Kim Jong-un, who ordered a shift to the highest quarantine alert level and a complete shutdown of the border town of Kaesong.