'The lingering unknown is this: will Kim's problems with Covid distract him from such a show of power, or will it make him more belligerent?' | Analysis
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks like he's in big trouble. His country has announced an"explosive" outbreak of Covid-19, reporting more than 2 million cases of what it refers to as"fever" in little more than a week since its first reported case.
In a largely undeveloped and famously isolated country of 25 million, where the vast majority of people are thought to be unvaccinated, it has the potential to be a humanitarian disaster on the sort of scale that would threaten the grip on power of just about any government in the world.But Pyongyang isn't like any other government. In fact, some experts say that rather than weaken Kim the outbreak could make him more powerful -- by giving him an excuse to tighten his grip.
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