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Whether China and Russia will use their veto power to block the measure or abstain remains to be seen

A large number of North Koreans including Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding.

The outbreak has caused concern about serious tragedies in the poor, isolated country with one of the world's worst health care systems and a high tolerance for civilian suffering.

North Korea said it found nearly 220,000 more people with feverish symptoms even as leader Kim Jong Un claimed progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of Covid-19

Leader Kim Jong Un abandoned a freeze on intercontinental ballistic missile testing and appears poised to resume testing of nuclear bombs, perhaps while Biden is in the region

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un accused officials of immaturity and slackness in handling the escalating COVID-19 outbreak ravaging across the unvaccinated nation.

During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made self-reliance his governing lynchpin, shunning international help

North Korea likely lacks testing supplies to confirm coronavirus infections in large numbers and its virus response is mostly isolating people with symptoms at shelters

State media didn't specify how many of the fever cases were confirmed as COVID-19. Among the 50 fatalities, North Korea officially identified only one as a COVID-19 case so far.

On Sunday, North Korea reported eight additional deaths, raising the total number to 50, and over 392,920 people with symptoms of fever nationwide

There were about 296,000 cases of fever with 15 deaths, the Korean Central News Agency said

"We deeply regret that the DPRK, with the most recent launches, has also abandoned its self-declared moratorium on ICBM launches," the G7 Foreign Ministers said in a joint communique after a meeting

The country imposed nationwide lockdowns on Thursday after confirming its first Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic

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The impersonator, who later identified himself by the stage name Howard X, started talking to gathered media

North Korea has so far refused to accept millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine proposed in the Covax global distribution programme, as it had claimed to be coronavirus-free

The Korean Central News Agency said Thursday tests from an unspecified number of people in the capital Pyongyang confirmed that they were infected with the Omicron variant

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff didn't immediately say whether the projectile was ballistic or how far it flew

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was fired from the North's capital region and flew to the waters off its eastern coast

Kim expressed firm will to continue developing his nuclear-armed military so that it could preemptively and thoroughly contain and frustrate all dangerous attempts and threatening moves