Couldn’t find a KF94 mask… Kim Jong-un wears two thin masks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was spotted wearing two thin masks while inspecting a pharmacy in downtown Pyongyang. Chairman Kim’s ‘double mask’ seems to be because the supply of masks, such as KF94 and N95, which have high virus blocking rates in North Korea, was not sufficient enough that even the supreme leader could not use it.

According to Chosun Central TV on the 16th, Chairman Kim held an emergency council related to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) the day before and then toured the pharmacies in Pyongyang City on the spot. At this meeting, Chairman Kim wore two layers of a rather thin-looking blue mask, presumed to be a dental mask. On the other hand, the staff accompanying him or the pharmacist he was talking to wore only one mask.

Previously, Chairman Kim recommended that executives and residents wear a mask from the end of January 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. However, he has maintained a ‘no-mask’ stance in public. Some interpreted it to prove ‘zero confirmed cases’.

Then, on the 12th, at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, where the fact that a confirmed case had been found in North Korea for the first time was publicly shown wearing a mask for the first time.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also ‘overwritten’ for several weeks in 2020, when the coronavirus situation was severe.

However, some analysts say that overwriting a mask does not help much in actual prevention.

In March of last year, Japan’s Institute of Physics and Chemistry, etc. conducted a simulation experiment with the supercomputer ‘Fugaku’, and announced that there was no significant difference in the effect of blocking the spread of saliva caused by sneezing, even when wearing a mask, compared to wearing a single mask. there is a bar

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