North Korea is expecting 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but faces ongoing delays amid a surge of cases in India
Officials will meet in Washington and discuss the transfer of wartime operational control
Drills will cover wartime invasion scenarios, weapons of mass destructions and non-conventional threats like COVID-19
Unification minister says Pyongyang will closely watch Moon-Biden summit this month before making any moves
The two presidents are expected to showboat their "iron-clad alliance" and might discuss North Korea issues
"The civilized world has no place for such brutality," US State Department spokesperson says
The DPRK self-reports its testing numbers to the World Health Organization
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also agreed to work on other “shared security” issues.
Wendy R. Sherman is a foreign policy veteran and previously traveled to Pyongyang to meet former DPRK leader Kim Jong Il
The DPRK has tested 43,052 samples in total as of March 18, according to a new WHO report
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