Tag: covid-19

North Korea’s Ministry of State Security has recently started efforts directed at residents of the country’s China-North Korea border region to blame the domestic...

North Korea is compelling party members to contribute household medicine and food, ostensibly for people in quarantine. It appears, however, that people locked in...

On Monday, Daily NK obtained a picture of Chinese medicine being sold at a pharmacy in Pyongyang. The medicine appears to have been recently...

Hyesan authorities recently loosened restrictions on movement in the city, ten days after the administrative center of Yanggang Province was put under lockdown due...

North Korea can do little to treat those infected with COVID-19 given the country’s poor public health system and the lack of diagnostic equipment,...

North Korea's State Emergency Anti-epidemic Command recently sent “public health administrative instructions” to its local command centers on how to cope with infections of...

Rason’s party committee has recently called on party cell secretaries and party members who have completed their military service to take the lead in...

As fever patients under the age of 10 die at relatively high rates in North Korea, significant numbers of children are dying from side...

North Korean authorities are conducting mass testing in Pyongyang and other areas of the country to track down fever patients, and people who refuse...

North Korean authorities recently ordered guard posts around the country to step up their vigilance and ensure people stay in place during the spread...