British embassy in North Korea is CLOSED and diplomats evacuated into China amid fears of a crackdown by Kim Jong-un to fight coronavirus

Britain has shuttered its embassy in North Korea and all its diplomats have left the country, its ambassador said Thursday as Pyongyang maintains strict entry controls to try to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

The North has closed its borders and insists it has not had a single case of the virus that emerged in neighbouring China late last year and has since swept the world.

The closure was a temporary move and came because Pyongyang's 'restrictions on entry to the country have made it impossible to rotate our staff and sustain the operation of the Embassy', a Foreign Office spokesperson said.

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