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Well if EU doesn t want it! North Korea ignores AstraZeneca moaning and orders MILLIONS Ciaran McGrath
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An interim delivery report published yesterday by the COVAX facility, the global vaccine distribution initiative, said it will distribute 1.992 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII) to the hermit state by the end of June. Meanwhile, South Korea will be provided with a minimum of 2.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, the report said, according to the Yonhap news agency.
In total, COVAX will distribute 337 million doses to 145 participating countries - roughly 3.3 percent of their total population.
AstraZeneca developed its vaccine in partnership with Oxford University (Image: GETTY)
So far, some 135,000 individuals in Norway have received their first dose against the disease and some 35,000 have received their second shot, from vaccines made by Moderna and from a partnership between Pfizer and BioNTech, the agency said.
The FHI said there had been few participants above the age of 65 in the trial conducted by AstraZeneca, meaning there was a lack of documentation as to the effect of the vaccine on older age groups.
Clement Beaune, France’s Minister for European Affairs, yesterday stirred up controversy after he claimed the UK was risking lives by not following suit.
Mr. Biegun, who also was deputy secretary of state for the past two years, left the State Department on Jan. 20. While it remains to be seen who will replace him, the Biden administration has quietly named a handful of key Asia policy officials in recent days.
There was no formal announcement by the administration, but former CIA analyst Jung H. Pak tweeted this week that she has “joined [the State Department] as Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian Pacific Affairs.”
Ms. Pak, most recently a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies, has been an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump’s attempt to redefine U.S. policy toward North Korea through top-down summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
New US State Department pick spells doom for Moon’s North Korea policies
Jung H. Pak supports using maximum pressure rather than showy summits in order to force Kim into giving up his nukes
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Image: Joint Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps - NKNEWS
The Biden-Harris administration’s new Asia policy pick has advocated for using maximum pressure to bring about North Korean denuclearization – a bad sign for Seoul’s urgent push for inter-Korean reconciliation.
Jung H. Pak, a well-known North Korea specialist and former Central Intelligence Agency official, announced her new role as the U.S. State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs on Wednesday. In her 2020 book, “Becoming Kim Jong Un,” she criticizes Trump’s summits with the North Korean leader in 2018 and 2019 as achieving little and actually undermining the international sanctions regime.[/p