Depending on how the Biden administration responds, North Korea may revert to testing to modernize its military
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On Saturday, North Korean state media unveiled a comprehensive report on the accomplishments and plans of the Workers’ Party of Korea Seventh Central Committee. That plan is wide-ranging and multifarious.
On matters pertaining to North Korea’s state nuclear forces and military modernization, the report is among the most detailed ever in the country’s recent history and certainly since 2017. In this regard, it supersedes Kim Jong Un’s report to the Fifth Plenum of the Seventh Central Committee in Dec. 2019, in which he famously declared the April 2018 moratorium on nuclear weapons and long-range missile testing moot
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N. Korean authorities slap ban on travel between regions until next February
Those with permits can still travel, but the number of “checkpoints are increasing between provinces, a source told Daily NK
2020.12.16 2:02pm
North Korea has reportedly banned people from traveling between regions from early December through the end of next February as a “super-class” quarantine measure against COVID-19. According to a source, however, the ban is not a total one as movement is allowed for some supplies and individuals with permits.
In a phone conversation with Daily NK on Tuesday, a source inside North Korea said authorities decided to place a “50-day nationwide ban on movement from Dec. 1 to Feb 20.” He said an enlarged meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party “decided [on the measure] internally, and an order was issued the very next day.”