For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea’s ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While ...
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From public executions to ‘traitor’ notices: North Korea escapees describe horrors of Covid-era repression
Draconian measures undertaken by North Korea to curb the spread of Covid, including monthly public executions, caused untold suffering to its estimated 26 million people, seven defectors from the ...
People who have escaped from North Korea since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic have described severe repression and restrictions on economic activity. North Korean escapees’ accounts illustrate the ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus returned from South Korea ...
WASHINGTON, June 17 (Yonhap) -- The COVID-19 pandemic raged in North Korea for more than two years before Pyongyang officially acknowledged the spread of the virus in the country in 2022, a think tank ...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea continues to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organization. In an email to The Associated Press on ...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable ...
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