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North Korean Official Purged Over Flouting of Coronavirus Quarantine A report out of Radio Free Asia claims that the official was executed, although this is not confirmed for certain. North Korea, while claiming for the last year that it has had no coronavirus cases within its borders, has over the same time period taken often draconian measures to stop the spread of the virus. These have concluded closing schools, cracking down on border trade and allegedly installing high-voltage wires on its...

KCNA/via REUTERS As North Korea’s ruling Korean Workers’ Party held its congress this week, residents of the impoverished country reacted cynically, saying that nothing that could be decided during the rare political meeting could improve their lives, sources in the country told RFA. The eighth party congress opened Tuesday, with the country’s leader Kim Jong Un admitting in a speech that the country “fell a long way short of the set objectives” of the five-year economic...

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Authorities in North Korea have begun threatening harsh punishments for residents caught smuggling goods to and from China, as earlier warnings went unheeded by desperate citizens, sources in the border area told RFA. At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in January, Beijing and Pyongyang closed their 880-mile border and suspended all trade to prevent the spread of the virus, but the closure had disast...