On May 12, Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Pak Jong Chon, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, visited the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters.
Since the end of April, a strange fever has spread rapidly throughout the North, in a short time more than 350,000 patients with high fever have been registered.