カテゴリー: North Korea
Employing remote IT workers who are secretly working for Kim Jong-un’s regime poses risks and may breach sanctions, say US agenciesUS officials have warned businesses against inadvertently hiring IT staff from North Korea, saying that rogue freelancers…
Leader criticises healthcare officials and orders army to distribute medicine as more than one million are infected by ‘fever’See all our coronavirus coverageKim Jong-un has criticised North Korea’s pandemic response and ordered the army to help distri…
Regime reports another 21 deaths as fresh outbreaks of coronavirus in South Africa and US concern health officialsNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned his country has been thrown into “great turmoil” after reporting another 21 deaths, days aft…
Despite nationwide lockdown, there are now more than 800,000 suspected cases in the unvaccinated country North Korea said on Sunday a total of 42 people had died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impo…
Pyongyang reports 21 more deaths as it scrambles to slow spread of the virus across unvaccinated populationNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has declared the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak a “great disaster” as it reported 21 more deaths.State medi…
Regime has said it is imposing ‘maximum emergency measures’ and 187,800 people are being ‘isolated and treated’ after showing signs of feverNorth Korea has announced its first Covid-19 death amid an “explosive” outbreak of fever, state media said on Fr…
Omicron infections create ‘biggest emergency incident in the country’, according to state media, as Kim Jong-un chairs response meetingSee all our coronavirus coverageNorth Korea has declared a “severe national emergency” after confirming its first out…
Elected in a tight contest in March, Yoon Suk-yeol proposes ‘audacious’ plan for Pyongyang at his inauguration in SeoulSouth Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has offered North Korea “an audacious plan” to transform its creaking economy in return f…
Kim Jong-un had earlier vowed to quickly bolster nuclear arsenal and threatened to use it against rivalsNorth Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, a few days afte…
Leader vows to boost arsenal primarily as deterrent but also against forces that try to ‘violate’ interests of nationThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has vowed to move faster in bolstering his nuclear forces and threatened to use them if provoked …
Leader appears well pleased with latest test of what state media reported was a new type of tactical guided weaponNorth Korea has test-fired a new weapons system, under the supervision of leader Kim Jong-un, that it claims will boost the efficiency of …
Kim Jong-un is expected to display advanced weapons at military parade later this month and escalate missile testingThousands of North Koreans marched in a choreographed display of loyalty to the ruling Kim family during a massive civilian parade celeb…
US says Pyongyang may escalate recent provocations with a weapons test on 110th anniversary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birthNorth Korea could be planning its first nuclear weapon test in nearly five years, according to a senior US official who urged the …
Warning points to a rise in tensions on the peninsula after the North conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five yearsThe influential sister of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has said the country’s nuclear forces would “ann…
Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, issues blistering attack on Seoul and ‘reckless remarks’ by Suh WookThe influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called South Korea’s defence minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive st…