North Koreans are ordered to hand over ‘decadent and bourgeois’ pet dogs so they can be killed and ‘provided to restaurants for meat’ as the country is rocked by food shortages Dictator Kim Jong-un announced in July that owning a pet is now against the law Authorities are identifying homes with dogs in Pyongyang and … Read more
Kim Jong-un visits flood-hit North Korean village in a luxury SUV wearing a bright white suit as locals flock to see him North Korea has suffered serious flooding in areas near their southern border Kim Jong un took a rare trip out of the capital Pyongyang to inspect the damage North Korean state media released … Read more
COVID-19 patients with and without symptoms are equally contagious: Asymptomatic people have just as much virus in their noses, mouths and lungs as those who cough and run fevers, study finds Researchers looked at 303 patients isolated at a treatment center in Cheonan, South Korea The viral loads of asymptomatic coronavirus patients were very similar to … Read more
North Korea is quarantining thousands of people and shipping food and other aid to a southern city locked down over coronavirus worries, officials said, as the country’s response to a suspected case reinforces doubt about its longstanding claim to be virus-free. But amid the outside skepticism and a stream of North Korean propaganda glorifying its … Read more
Donald Trump has declared that the US was ‘lower than the world’ regarding coronavirus data, before suggesting South Korea’s figures were so low because they are faking their statistics. In a sit down interview with AXIOS’s Jonathan Swan on Monday, the president handed the reporter a series of charts and graphs to illustrate that America … Read more
North Korea has declared a state of emergency after a person suspected of having coronavirus entered the country. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting after the person suspected of having COVID-19 entered from South Korea by illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday. If confirmed, it … Read more
South Korea’s self-isolation app that monitors people in quarantine contained a serious security flaw that would allow hackers to access names and locations of users South Korea’s quarantine app contained multiple serious security flaws It left personal data like name, real-time location, and phone number vulnerable The flaw has reportedly been fixed and there are … Read more
School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests: Korean CDC finds middle and high school-age children can spread the virus just as easily as adults The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at household and nonhousehold contacts of more than 5,700 coronavirus patients Children under age 10 were about half as likely as … Read more
Taking a slice of pension in your fifties can boost your health in the short-term, study finds UK, US, Singapore and South Korea have all relaxed rule that you have to wait until retirement age to access pension cash Research of over 7,000 people found 41% of 55-year-olds studied withdrew the equivalent of £13,567 on … Read more
Sorry we let a serial killer murder 15 women while an innocent man was jailed for 20 YEARS, say South Korean police in extraordinary apology Lee Chun-jae, 57, admitted to the killings in November last year when questioned Police have apologised to those ‘who suffered damage’ due to the investigation Yoon Sun-yeo was wrongfully convicted … Read more