For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea’s ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While ...

North Korea’s government claimed to have avoided the pandemic entirely, declaring “zero” COVID-19 cases until May 2022. Yet recent reporting indicates the virus was widespread, largely untreated, and ...

This joint report was originally published by the George W. Bush Institute on June 17, 2025. This report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in cooperation with the George W. Bush ...

Officials drastically understated outbreaks and deaths, depriving citizens of help, two U.S. research groups report, citing interviews with people inside North Korea. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...

Suspected North Korean hackers have recently tried to break into at least nine health organizations, including pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson and vaccine developer Novavax Inc , revealing a ...

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha cast doubt on Saturday over North Korea's claim that it has no coronavirus cases, while offering the South's help in combating the pandemic.