Asia North Korea A group of employees and their families from Russian and Mongolian embassies in Pyongyang have left for their home countries, further reducing the total number of foreigners in North Korea while the country's borders remain closed to incoming travellers
Asia North Korea Medical crews and epidemiological investigators have been sent to South Hwanghae province, which is battling an outbreak of an as yet unidentified intestinal disease
Asia North Korea The Foreign Ministry is believed to have denounced the US-led joint exercises and security pacts in Asia, saying they are destabilising the Korean peninsula and increasing the risk of military conflict
Asia North Korea Adding a skyscraper and simplifying the exterior design of flats in a new 10.000-home Pyongyang neighborhood, the country has changed plans for its biggest housing project of the year
Asia North Korea Experts argue that the 'zero COVID' strategy reportedly sought by the authorities could prove disastrous for the country, which does not have the resources to replicate the Chinese model
Asia North Korea After Kim Jong Un reprimanded his officials for their 'irresponsible execution' in supplying state pharmacies with medicines, Korean Central News Agency reported that the army has been mobilised to support
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