North Korea enacted three new laws on Sunday related to securing medical supplies and punishing violators amid the country’s COVID-19 outbreak and recovery efforts, according to state media.

While short on details, the announcement comes after authorities posted a decree warning of the death penalty for stealing or illegally selling medicine at the height of the outbreak in May, suggesting the new laws also relate to efforts to shore up the state medicine distribution system after violations.

The Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) passed a new Law on Medicines, Law against Violations of Procedures and Law on Self-defense Guard at