North Korea has issued new pictures of leader Kim Jong-Un just days after a South Korean diplomat claimed he was in a coma. The dictator was shown at an enlarged meeting of the politburo of the Workers Party, the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency said. He called for prevention efforts against the coronavirus and a … Read more
Thousands of Protestant church members in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said Monday, as the country battles virus clusters linked to religious groups. The country’s ‘trace, test and treat’ approach has been held up as a global model in how to curb the virus. But over the weekend the capital and … Read more
North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free. But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its … Read more
North Korea warns Britain will be ‘made to pay the price’ for putting two of its state ministries on sanctions list A North Korean official said they ‘strongly condemn and reject the UK’s daring to impose sanctions’ Dominic Raab announced sanctions against those accused of human rights abuses Sanctions are on four nations: Russia, Saudi … Read more
Cyber criminals with ties to North Korea are stealing US shoppers’ information by hacking into the checkout carts of dozens of large retailers including Claire’s Security experts have uncovered a skimming attack on large US retailers The team is pointing to the group Hidden Cobra, which has ties to North Korea The hackers have been … Read more
Photographs of the Korean War have been brought back to life in color seventy years on from its outbreak, which began on June 25, 1950. North Korea invaded their southern neighbors, five years after the end of World War II, when Korea was liberated by the United States and the Soviet Union from imperial Japanese … Read more
South Korea confirms second wave of Covid-19 as health minister warns of a ‘grave situation’ and Seoul mayor threatens to reimpose strict social distancing A total of 90 imported virus cases have been identified over the past week The country reported 17 new infections – 11 local and 6 imported – in last 24 hours The … Read more
North Korea is planning to send millions of propaganda leaflets to the South by an aerial armada of balloons. Pyongyang has previously issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over anti-North leaflets which defectors based in the South send across the border – usually attached to balloons or floated in bottles. In retaliation to … Read more
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened military action against South Korea as she attacked Seoul over declining bilateral relations and its inability to stop activists from dropping anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Describing South Korea as an ‘enemy’, Kim Yo Jong repeated an earlier threat by saying Seoul will … Read more
Concerns have been raised over a possible second wave of coronavirus in South Korea as the R rate rises to 1.8 in the Seoul area. The country’s top infectious disease expert is worried about the speed of virus transmissions in the densely populated capital area, where around 30 to 50 new infections have been reported each … Read more