[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>The Germany Embassy in North Korea has temporarily shut down and all its staff have left North Korea due to concerns over the novel coronavirus, according to the German press agency DPA. According to a Mar. 9 report by the DPA, the German Federal Foreign Office announced that all staff at the Germany Embassy in Pyongyang have left North Korea and arrived in Vladivostok, Russia. A spokesperson for the Germany Federal Foreign Office added that North Korea has currently suspended all international travel and is quarantining all foreign nationals within its borders. </p><p>The photo was released by the state-run Rodong Sinmun on Mar. 9, showing health workers sanitizing a park in Pyongyang.</p>

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