The Latest Breaking News from North Korea

North Korea, which for a large time remained insulated from the global COVID-19 outbreak, began reporting cases this year.

Worryingly, Washington’s concern does not rise to the level of the danger.

North Korea’s leader has offered his family’s reserve medicines to victims of the disease, local media report

Adding to the woes of the isolated nation, Kim Jong-un-led North Korea has reported an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal epidemic in the western port city of Haeju. 

South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South Korean official slain by North Korea near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary in 2020 had intended to defect to the North

Outbreak in an agricultural area comes as impoverished country battles COVID-19 and food shortages.

There was no evidence that the South Korean fisheries official shot and burned by North Korean troops in 2020 intended to defect, South Korea's maritime and military authorities said on Thursday, reversing its earlier announcement.

North Korea has reported the outbreak of another infectious disease in addition to its ongoing wave of COVID-19

North Korea reported an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal epidemic in a farming region on Thursday, putting further strain on the isolated country as it battles chronic food shortages and an unprecedented wave of COVID-19 infections. Leader Kim Jong Un sent medicines to the western port city of Haeju on…