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April 1, 2020

North Korea getting $900G to fight coronavirus from WHO despite claiming no cases

North Korea is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the World Health Organization to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus.

March 31, 2020

US spies having trouble assessing coronavirus spread in China, Russia: report

With nearly 800,000 coronavirus cases worldwide, Intelligence agencies in the U.S. are having difficulties determining the situation in areas such as China, Russia, and North Korea, government sources told Reuters.

March 31, 2020

James Carafano: Coronavirus and regime change — will this plague topple nations great and small?

Will the lies, inefficiencies and suffering propagated by the coronavirus response of authoritarian regimes bring their downfall?

March 30, 2020

North Korea rips Pompeo, says 'if the US bothers us, it will be hurt'

North Korea is vowing Monday to “repay the U.S. with actual horror and unrest” following remarks from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in which he called on world leaders to keep applying pressure on the Hermit Kingdom’s controversial nuclear program. 

March 29, 2020

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missiles, continues test during coronavirus pandemic

North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles on Saturday, officials in South Korea and Japan said, as experts believe leader Kim Jong Un might be trying to strengthen domestic support amid the coronavirus outbreak.

March 25, 2020

North Korea encourages social distancing to prevent coronavirus, even as country claims no confirmed cases

North Korea has advised people to practice social distancing in order to prevent spreading the coronavirus, even though it claims to have no reported cases.

March 22, 2020

Trump offered Kim Jong Un coronavirus help in personal letter, North Korea says

President Trump sent a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offering cooperation against the coronavirus pandemic and praised the dictator’s efforts to defend his people from the disease, Kim’s sister said Sunday.

March 18, 2020

Kim Jong Un orders workers to build new hospital as North Korea continues to claim no coronavirus cases

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is calling on his country to hastily build a “modern general hospital” to “better protect the precious health and safety of our people” amid growing suspicions that the Hermit Kingdom isn’t being honest about the coronavirus. 

March 17, 2020

North Korea claims it has conquered coronavirus – but does anyone believe them?

North Korea has triumphantly declared that it has zero cases of COVID-19, a virus that's turned into a global pandemic and put entire nations on lockdown to slow its speed.  However, the problem with Kim Jong Un's chest-thumping proclamations are that no one believes him.

March 8, 2020

North Korea flies out foreign diplomats in midst of coronavirus fight

A special North Korean flight carrying presumably dozens of diplomats and other foreigners left for Russia's Far East on Monday as the country tightens its lockdown intended to fend off the coronavirus.