North Korea

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast on Sunday, a day after South Korea and the US wrapped up their first combined military exercises involving an American aircraft carrier in more than four…
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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit. At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South…
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North Korea removed virus lockdown measures that had been in place for more than two weeks in its capital, news reports indicated, after saying policies by leader Kim Jong Un have controlled the country’s first Covid outbreak. Kim’s regime…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first Covid-19…
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In its latest firing, North Korea on Wednesday launched three missiles, including its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Hwasong-17, prompting the United States to call for a vote on Thursday on a UN resolution that would…
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South Korea’s government says one of the three weapons North Korea launched Wednesday was a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile. South Korea’s government says the launches are “a grave provocation” that threaten international…
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The global Covid tally is nearing 527 million, including over 496 million recoveries with around 6.3 million deaths and over 23.9 million active cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest update said that the number of…
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North Korea has completed preparations for a nuclear test and is seeking the best moment to carry it out, a South Korean lawmaker said Thursday, a day before US President Joe Biden is due to arrive in Seoul. Despite North Korea’s recent…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea is worrying for new variants of the virus, as the country is battling a rapid spread of a mysterious fever since late April. Addressing a press…
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The North Korean authorities confirmed eight more deaths in the country, as well as upwards of 3.5 lakh fresh cases of “fever” symptoms in the midst of one of the most rapidly growing Covid-19 outbreaks recorded in the world. It is likely…
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