Tag: coronavirus
Suspected outbreak of COVID-19 among Youth Day event participants in Hamhung
North Korean authorities have swiftly moved to implement quarantines and other measures after a suspected outbreak of COVID-19 occurred among a group of students...
Two more N. Koreans crossed border into Samjiyon on Aug. 20
Two North Korean women crossed over the Sino-North Korean border into Samjiyon, Yanggang Province, on Aug. 20, and rumors that one of the women...
Yanggang Province building projects suspended due to COVID-19 measures
Measures aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, including the shutdown of the Sino-North Korean border, are causing the suspension of various construction projects...
North Korean schools to start new semester on Sept. 1
North Korean authorities recently handed down an order to schools throughout the country that directed them to start the new semester on Sept. 1,...
Lecture in N. Hamgyong Province claims recent returnee heightened threat of...
A Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province reported recently that North Korean authorities held a lecture for communist party members, workers and cadres...
Source: Restrictions on movements nationwide have intensified
Following the lock down of Kaesong Special City recently, North Korea has moved to enact further restrictions on movements across the entire country in...
Source: N. Korean authorities order “lock down” of Nampo Port following...
North Korean authorities have ordered a lock down of Nampo Port after coronavirus-infected goods were detected among imports that arrived in mid-July, Daily NK...
N. Korea’s elite look to foreign-made COVID-19 vaccines for salvation
While North Korea claims it is close to a breakthrough in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, Pyongyang's elite are taking preliminary steps...
Classroom doors at N. Korean schools “sealed shut”
North Korea’s education authorities have taken the unprecedented step of locking the doors to school classrooms and affixing them with “paper seals” amid efforts...
Pence Cartoon: “Deflated”
Explanatory Note
“Deflated” reveals the contradictions of North Korea’s response to COVID-19. The country still maintains that it has no COVID-19 cases, which is almost...
