The country reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be Covid-19 and encouraged good health habits as a mass outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population.
Pyongyang reported 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilises over a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country’s first Covid-19 outbreak.
North Korean leader Kim in a meeting called for unity between the government and people to stabilize the outbreak as quickly as possible.
White House is still finalising details of President Biden's Asia schedule, US officials say, but a trip to the heavily fortified DMZ separating the two Koreas is a step that is taken by many who visit the region.
Pyongyang says six people died, one with confirmed Covid and nearly 190,000 are under quarantine following an "explosive" spread of fever across the East Asian nation, a day after declaring Covid outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population.
Pyongyang announces the country's first-ever case of Covid-19, with state media calling it a "severe national emergency incident" after more than two years of keeping the pandemic at bay.
The missile was fired from waters near the eastern port city of Sinpo, the country's first demonstration of a submarine-fired ballistic system since October last year.
Government officials, as well as company and factory workers, were "actively joining the fight in drought-prone regions," according to Rodong Sinmun newspaper.
The launch comes just a week after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to boost Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal at the "fastest possible speed."
North Korea will continue to develop its nuclear-armed military so that it could “preemptively and thoroughly contain and frustrate all dangerous attempts and threatening moves," Kim Jong-un said.
Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un has said that the country will continue to bolster its nuclear capabilities despite being under biting international sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme.
North's Kim Jong-un exchanged letters with outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in and thanked him for trying to improve relations, state media KCNA reports, amid tension over Pyongyang's weapons tests.
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