July 28, 2020 North Korean who caused coronavirus scare was fleeing sexual assault investigation, report says The man who sparked a recent coronavirus scare in North Korea after crossing its border reportedly fled the South because he was facing a sexual assault investigation, it has emerged.
July 27, 2020 Defector who sparked North Korea coronavirus lockdown doesn't have disease, South says A man who recently swam back to North Korea after defecting years ago – leading Kim Jong Un to place a border city on lockdown over fears he had the coronavirus – isn’t actually carrying the disease, the South revealed Monday.
July 26, 2020 Kim Jong Un puts North Korean city on lockdown over suspected coronavirus case, says 'vicious virus' may be in country After denying for months that it did not have a single case of coronavirus on its soil, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un placed a border city on lockdown after a person was discovered with suspected symptoms, state media reported Sunday.
July 3, 2020 Kim Jong Un repeats claim that North Korea has no COVID-19 cases North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis,” state media said Friday.
June 27, 2020 Inside 'Office 39': North Korea's illicit global smuggling network North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vanishes, then pops up. Now, the portly despot is out of sight again, and that raises the question: Who’s minding the store — the one that keeps him in booze and fancy wheels?
June 26, 2020 North Korea says it will counter 'nuclear with nuclear' over 'hostile' US policy North Korea Thursday said it has no choice but to “counter nuclear with nuclear” over the “hostile policy” of the United States, which it blames for failed bilateral talks.
June 24, 2020 Kim Jong Un suspends planned military retaliation against South Korea North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un suspended a planned military retaliation against South Korea.
June 23, 2020 South Korean activist group floats anti-Kim leaflets to North amid rising tensions South Korean activists say they launched balloons carrying hundreds of thousands of leaflets across the border with North Korea on Tuesday amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
June 19, 2020 South Korea's unification minister resigns amid rising tensions with North The minister resigns as relations between the two countries continue to collapse.
June 16, 2020 North Korea blows up South Korea liaison office: Seoul South Korea said Tuesday that North Korea’s military demolished an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border, only days after the Hermit Kingdom threatened a "tragic scene" at the site.
