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Latest North Korea news from NK News correspondents
US has no ‘expectation’ COVID-19 will delay North Korean nuclear test
Washington has warned of a 7th nuclear test coming as early as May
Yoon appoints lawmaker Cho Tae-yong as South Korea’s next ambassador to US
Cho previously helped support denuclearization talks with North Korea and was ambassador to Ireland and Australia
No vaccinations in North Korea raises risk of rapid COVID-19 spread: WHO
World Health Organization says it has yet to receive any official word from Pyongyang after first known COVID outbreak
North Korean jets fly to China to pick up pandemic supplies: Sources
Multiple round trips in recent days appear to be first Air Koryo international flights since early 2020
North Korea mobilizes army in fight against COVID-19 spread: State media
Six more deaths and over 269,000 ‘fever’ patients also recorded since Sunday
North Korea’s COVID-19 outbreak by the numbers
Official statistics paint bleak, if uneven, picture of mass outbreak inside the country
North Korean rural areas active as ‘fever’ rips through country
Farmers and other agricultural workers engaging rice fields and walking outside amid COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ orders
UN agency granted sanctions exemption to help improve ‘food security’ in DPRK
Food and Agriculture Organization gets green light to send support for farming sector amid reports of drought
Seoul attempts to offer vaccines, test kits and other aid to COVID-stricken DPRK
But Pyongyang did not make it clear whether it was willing to entertain the offer
North Korea struggling to provide medicine amid COVID outbreak: Kim Jong Un
State media reports 50 dead and over 1.2 million cases since the start of the outbreak this month
