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In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Office via Yonhap News Agency, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during the National Security Council (NSC) meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. North Korea test-launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile and two shorter-range weapons into the sea Wednesday, South Korea said, hours after President Joe Biden ended a trip to Asia where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of the North's nuclear threat. (South Korea Presidential Office /Yonhap via AP)

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Seoul: N Korea fires suspected ICBM and 2 other missiles
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
Tue,05/24/22-4:32PM , 433 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile and two shorter-range weapons toward its eastern waters Wednesday, South Korea said, hours after President Joe Biden ended a trip to Asia where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of the North’s nuclear threat.
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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 15, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

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Tea and infomercials: N. Korea fights COVID with few tools
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
Wed,05/18/22-11:54PM , 393 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — On a recent nighttime visit to a drugstore, a double-masked Kim Jong Un lamented the slow delivery of medicine.
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People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting with an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea on May 16, 2022. As an illness suspected to be COVID-19 sickens hundreds of thousands of his people, Kim stands at a critical crossroad. Does he swallow his pride and accept help or does he go it alone even though a huge number of fatalities could undermine his leadership? (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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N. Korea's Kim faces 'huge dilemma' on aid as virus surges
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
Tue,05/17/22-12:58AM , 728 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin, shunning international help and striving instead for domestic strategies to fix his battered economy.
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An employee of the Kyonghung Foodstuff General Store disinfects the showroom in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Before acknowledging domestic COVID-19 cases, Thursday, May 12, 2022, North Korea spent 2 1/2 years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and steadfastly claiming that its superior socialist system was protecting its 26 million people from “a malicious virus” that had killed millions around the world. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

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EXPLAINER: What's behind North Korea's COVID-19 admission?
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
Fri,05/13/22-6:49AM , 410 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Before acknowledging its first domestic COVID-19 cases, North Korea spent 2 1/2 years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and steadfastly claiming that its superior socialist system was protecting its 26 million people from “a malicious virus” that had killed millions around the world.
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