Hundreds of North Korean soldiers have reportedly died from the coronavirus and thousands of others are being quarantined. But the secretive nation’s leaders are sticking to the official narrative that the global epidemic has not reached them. According to Daily NK, a South Korean news organisation, the Covid-19 virus killed 180 North Korean soldiers in January and February and has sent another... 

Washington has refused to recognize North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, effectively closing the door on negotiations with Pyongyang. North Korea said it would only conduct talks with the US as an equal nuclear state. “North Korea’s demand to be recognized as a nuclear weapons state is neither realistic nor acceptable,” US Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation...