Asia North Korea Cross-border goods train services between North Korea and China have been suspended following a decision by North Korean authorities after a series of Covid-19 infections in the Chinese border city of Dandong
Asia North Korea Officials called again for the country to step up efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in a message carried by a main newspaper, stressing the need for officials to not let their guard down
Asia North Korea The country yesterday praised Kim Jong Un's leadership in developing nuclear weapons, touted his political achievements, and unveiled new portraits and exhibits to celebrate his 10 years as head of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)
Asia North Korea The EU would reportedly be ready to vote on a new resolution on human rights violations, condemning the use of the death penalty after the NGO Open Doors reported the killing of "several dozen" North Korean Christians
Asia North Korea The country's start-up scene is still "relatively basic" and any business with "some degree of innovation" could be considered a start-up, according to a Singapore-based non-profit group that is helping train North Koreans in entrepreneurship
Asia North Korea New satellite images suggest construction work at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site for the first time since 2018, including the building of a new block and repairs of an existing structure
Asia North Korea Work has begun on a large 10.000-apartment residential project, a major housing initiative by the regime
Asia North Korea A batch of nutritional supplies to support 160.000 pregnant and lactating women has been disinfected by authorities after it was held for several months in quarantine at Nampho port, UNICEF reported
Asia North Korea Photographs taken from the country's most powerful missile launch in five years, with the missile reaching a maximum altitude of 2.000km, have been released; Pyongyang has conducted a record number of seven missile launches in January
Asia North Korea The country has reorganised its agriculture ministry into a new agricultural commission after leader Kim Jong Un promised to tackle food shortages by prioritising food policies
Asia North Korea The country fired again in its fourth weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea said, in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the US Biden administration for its continuing test launches
Asia North Korea The man who crossed the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas is said to be a former defector from the country, South Korea says