COVID-19 vaccine likely to arrive in North Korea in second half of this year
Posted : 2021-05-07 16:11
Updated : 2021-05-07 18:00 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, speaks to Jo Yong-won, left, secretary for organizational affairs of the central committee of the Workers Party, during a performance by the art groups of servicemen s families from the Korean People s Army at the Mansudae Art Theatre in Pyongyang, Wednesday. All spectators, excluding Kim, his wife Ri Sol-ju and a handful of high ranking officials, wore face mask while watching the performance. Yonhap
By Kwon Mee-yoo
North Korea is expected to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the second half of the year through international vaccine organizations, to help it deal with the ongoing pandemic.
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Activists in Seoul vowed on Tuesday to keep sending anti-North Korean leaflets by balloon into the North’s territory, shrugging off a South Korean investigation into a balloon launch last week in defiance of a law banning the practice, which Pyongyang called an act of “dirty human scum.”
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that authorities are investigating the launch of balloons across the closed inter-Korean border by a group called Fighters for a Free North Korea, the first such launch since the law came into effect in December.
In a move widely criticized by human rights groups and free speech advocates as a concession to placate North Korea, Seoul in December 2020 passed the law banning the airborne leaflets with messages critical of the North Korean government and its leaders, which civic groups have been doing for decades.
North Korea feared to stage provocation around Seoul-Washington summit
Posted : 2021-05-02 16:52
Updated : 2021-05-02 17:00
What is assumed to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile is displayed during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of North Korea s ruling Workers Party of Korea in this capture image of Korea Central Television broadcasting, Oct. 10, 2020. Yonhap
By Nam Hyun-woo
North Korea spouted bellicose rhetoric against both Seoul and Washington, Sunday, following President Joe Biden s address to both houses of Congress, and his administration s completion of a policy review on the North, breaking its weeks-long wait-and-see stance.
Experts said Pyongyang may attempt to rattle its neighbors and the U.S. with a number of low-profile provocations before the May 21 summit between Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. These could involve the closure of North Korea s own organization on inter-Korean relations or the launch of short-range missiles.
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Defector group flouts ban, sends leaflets across North Korea border
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Defector Park Sang-hak claimed Friday that his activist group Fighters for Free North Korea sent balloons carrying leaflets, books and cash into the North this week, defying a government ban. Photo by Fighters for Free North Korea
Defector Park Sang-hak said he is not concerned about being arrested for defying the anti-leafleting law. File photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI
SEOUL, April 30 (UPI) An activist group defied a South Korean government ban and floated balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang information across the border into North Korea, it announced on Friday.
Fighters for Free North Korea, led by high-profile defector Park Sang-hak, sent 500,000 leaflets, 500 booklets and $5,000 in one-dollar bills attached to 10 large balloons into the reclusive state, Park said in a statement. He claimed the group carried out the mission in secret on two occasions between Sunday and Thursday at locations in Gyeongg