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North Korea hails 'good results' in COVID-19 fight as caseload passes 2 million
May 20, 2022 10:58North Korea on Friday claimed “good results” in the fight against the country’s first confirmed coronavirus outbreak even as the number of people with fever symptoms crossed two million.
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Pyongyang may greet Biden with nuclear test during South Korea visit
May 19, 2022 07:21The United States says North Korea could carry out nuclear tests or long-range missile tests, or both, during or after President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan this week.
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Kim slams North Korea's COVID response, orders army to 'stabilize' drugs supply
May 16, 2022 13:16North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un has blasted the country’s crisis management in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, ordering the deployment of the army to help distribute medicine, state media said on Monday.
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North Korea reports 15 deaths and nearly 300,000 new ‘fever’ cases
May 15, 2022 08:34North Korea says a total of 42 people have died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown.
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Kim: COVID-19 throwing country into 'great turmoil' amid rising death toll
May 14, 2022 09:26North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the spread of the coronavirus has plunged the country into "great turmoil," calling for an all-out battle to overcome the epidemiological crisis.
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South Korea says North preparing for seventh nuclear test
May 13, 2022 16:03The South Korean government has claimed that North Korea is about to conduct its seventh nuclear test.
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N.Korea reports first COVID-19 death after 350,000 sickened with fever
May 13, 2022 08:35At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country’s first confirmed outbreak since the pandemic began.
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North Korea fires three ballistic missiles amid tensions with US, allies
May 12, 2022 17:35North Korea has fired at least three ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast as tensions are once again rising on the troubled Korean Peninsula and in the Pacific region.
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North Korea reports first COVID-19 outbreak, orders lockdown in 'gravest emergency'
May 12, 2022 13:23North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected in Pyongyang.
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China, Russia oppose further UN sanctions on North Korea over missile tests
May 12, 2022 13:20China and Russia have voiced opposition to further sanctions by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against North Korea over its missile tests, as the United States urges the council to impose such measures on Pyongyang.