NHK has learned that North Korea and China have agreed to resume the passenger train service linking their capitals for the ...

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated officials for delays in pandemic response and mobilized the country’s military to fight the nationwide coronavirus outbreak that is posing one ...

North Korea claims it has zero cases of the coronavirus. Escapees and observers say the official count from the tightly-controlled country with a poorly equipped medical system is suspect.

With the number of coronavirus infections soaring around the globe, North Korea claims to be doing what it always does: keeping hostile forces at bay with its steely resolve. In January, North ...

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 ...

North Korea has received a total of US$2.38 million in international aid so far this year, all of it from Switzerland, United ...

Pyongyang says it has mobilized to fight for its "national survival." Experts say North Korea's track record of fighting epidemics does not bode well for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Three generations of totalitarian misrule have left North Korea woefully incapable of containing, or even suppressing, a coronavirus epidemic.

Cases of the novel coronavirus in North Korea have existed from around late March and have only been reported in three areas of the country, officials in the country have reportedly confirmed ...

N Korea-pandemic report WASHINGTON, June 17 (Yonhap) -- The COVID-19 pandemic raged in North Korea for more than two years before Pyongyang officially acknowledged the spread of the virus in the ...

The North Korean government has substantially increased security along its northern border, using Covid-19 as the justification, further restricting travel and trade.

LONDON -- North Korea is set to partially reopen its doors to tourism later this year after being closed off since January 2020 at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a ...