We shouldn't worry because the authorities have the situation well in hand:
"Bird flu has recently broken out at a few chicken farms including the Hadang chicken farm," it said, quoting members of the communist state's emergency veterinary committee as saying.
"Hundreds of thousands of infected chickens have been burned before their burial at the relevant chicken farms."
First of all, can we believe that no human victims are there?
Second, in a land of famine, can we believe that hundreds of thousands of chickens have been killed and buried?
It seems to me that the temptation to save some chickens to sell will be too strong in such an impoverished state when the absolute fear of the government is waning.
What I don't know is whether a possible spread of the flu is a threat to the Pyongyang regime's stability or is it a broader health threat to the world?
The problem is that we can't trust anything that the regime says. An interesting complication to say the least.
