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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un suffered from “fever” during the Covid pandemic, his sister has said, in what appears to be the first suggestion he had the virus. Kim Yo-jong also blamed South Korea for her country’s outbreak saying it sent leaflets contaminated with Covid-19 across the border. South Korea rejected the claims as “groundless”. Ms […]
North Korea says everyone who fell sick since the country confirmed its first Covid-19 infections has recovered. On Friday state media reported zero fever cases for a seventh straight day. North Korea refers to “fever” rather than “Covid” patients due to a lack of testing equipment. The country announced its first Covid outbreak in May […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he is ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media reported, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. Kim’s speech to war veterans on the […]
North Korean state media attributed the COVID-19 outbreak in the country to “alien things coming by wind,” and landing close to the border with the South. Korean Central News Agency said the source of the outbreak was an 18-year-old soldier and a five-year-old child who came into contact with objects near the border. State-run Rodong […]
North Korea appears to have released water from a dam near its border with South Korea, prompting vacationers in the neighbouring country to evacuate due to rising water levels on the Imjin River, officials said Tuesday. The water level at a bridge on the river in the South’s border county of Yeoncheon surpassed 1 meter […]
North Korea has accused the United States, Japan and South Korea for making moves to create an “Asian version of NATO.” The charge was made by state news agency KCNA on Wednesday, hours before Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, and Yoon Suk-yeol, the South Korean president, were due to meet US President Joe Biden as […]
South Korean officials have said that the disease, only referred to by North Korea as an “acute enteric epidemic” is likely to be either cholera or typhoid. North Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a province battling the outbreak of an intestinal disease, state media reported on Sunday. At least 800 families […]
North Korea named top nuclear negotiator as the nation’s first female foreign minister, state media reported Saturday, amid warnings from the US that Pyongyang is preparing to conduct a nuclear test. Career diplomat Choe Son Hui was appointed at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea from June 8-10, […]
North Korea could conduct a seventh nuclear test “at any time”, a US official has warned. Sung Kim, US special representative to North Korea, made the warning days after Pyongyang test-launched a record eight ballistic missiles on Sunday. Any such nuclear test would be met with a “swift and forceful response”, US Deputy Secretary of […]
South Korea and the United States jointly fired eight missiles on Monday, in response to a volley of ballistic missiles fired by North Korea a day earlier. It comes as Pyongyang continues to escalate its missile tests. South Korea’s president Yoon Suk-yeol said his government would respond sternly to any provocation from its northern neighbour. […]
North Koreans were treated to a Hollywood-style movie, with dramatic music and video effects, starring Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in a leather jacket and dark glasses. State-run television North Korean Central Television usually broadcasts Kim family propaganda, alongside military band concerts and feature films about patriotism and feats of labour. Anything away from this deviates. The […]
North Korea has fired an “unknown projectile” which appeared to fail immediately after launch, South Korea’s military said. The suspected missile was fired from an airfield outside the capital Pyongyang. The airfield has been the site of several launches, including previous tests of what were the US alleges were intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It comes […]