North Korea claims it has zero cases of the coronavirus. ... Russia in late February sent 1,500 coronavirus test kits to North Korea at its request, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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 ...

Coronavirus continues to pummel the globe – and despite bold proclamations that it hasn't encountered a single infection, let alone death – North Korea is far from immune.

Experts say North Korea's track record of fighting epidemics does not bode well for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. ... have reported cases of COVID-19 in North Korea, some of them fatal.

North Korea's assertion that it is coronavirus-free comes amid growing speculation about the health of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, fueled by his absence from a major national celebration in ...

SEOUL — After saying for months that it has kept COVID-19 at bay, North Korea on Wednesday came its closest to admitting that its anti-coronavirus campaign has been less than perfect. Leader Kim ...

Until today, North Korea was among a handful of countries, including Turkmenistan and Tuvalu, that have not reported a case of COVID-19. Its borders have been closed since the start of the ...

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.

North Korea is shoring up its defenses against the potentially deadly coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands across one of its borders and more than a thousand more across the other ...

Three generations of totalitarian misrule have left North Korea woefully incapable of containing, or even suppressing, a coronavirus epidemic. The same intelligent (and malevolent) design that has ...

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