Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has compared Western Australia’s (WA) handling of the CCP virus pandemic and border closures to the restrictive measures of North Korea, according to The West Australian. Joyce, who has previously called for states’ to learn to live with the virus, lambasted WA Premier Mark McGowan’s zero-COVID policy and for refusing to provide a hard deadline when the border would reopen to New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria—with McGowan instead saying it would happen a “couple of months” after WA reached “between 80 and 90 percent” vaccinated. “Ultimately, unless you are going to really turn yourself into a hermit kingdom like we’ll have North Korea and a kind of another hermit kingdom on the west coast of Australia, then COVID is going to arrive,” Joyce reportedly said. “It’s everywhere else in the world. It’s how you manage it. It would be better for [McGowan] to …