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June 2021 - North Korea Special Weapons News
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- North Korea Warns of 'Grave' Coronavirus Incident VOA 29 Jun 2021 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says a "grave incident" has threatened his country's coronavirus prevention efforts — a rare admission by Pyongyang, which claims to be free of COVID-19.
- DPRK's Kim Blasts COVID-19 Emergency Response Chiefs for 'Grave Incident' Sputnik 29 Jun 2021 -- Since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in late 2019, the nations that have best contained the virus' spread have been the handful of socialist nations that implemented total lockdowns, while the nations with the highest death rates have been those whose leaders believed lockdowns were worse than the virus' staggering death toll.
- Report on Enlarged Meeting of 2nd Political Bureau of 8th C.C., WPK KCNA 30 Jun 2021 -- The current situation in which a fierce campaign is being conducted under the fighting programme set forth at the historic 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) to win a fresh victory in socialist construction despite all the manifold challenges calls for revolutionizing cadres, the backbone of the country, and strengthening their ranks with select ones by more clearly preserving the militant nature of our Party advancing in struggle.
- North Korea Launches Investigation to Stop Gossip about Kim Jong Un's Health Radio Free Asia 29 Jun 2021 -- North Korea has launched an investigation into gossip about the health of the country's leader Kim Jong Un, after he appeared on state media looking thinner after a lengthy absence, sources in the country told RFA.
- North Korea Orders Nationwide School Renovations, Sends Bill to Parents Radio Free Asia 28 Jun 2021 -- North Korea has ordered universities and schools nationwide to renovate old, crumbling buildings and modernize their classrooms, but the funding, labor, and materials for each school is the responsibility of the students and their families, sources in the country told RFA.
- DPRK Premier Inspects Different Units in Western Area KCNA 27 Jun 2021 -- Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected several units in the western area of the country.
- North Korea Admits Kim Jong Un Lost Weight VOA 27 Jun 2021 -- North Korean state television has acknowledged Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, even admitting that the leader's health is a subject of concern in Pyongyang.
- North Koreans Reject Korean War Propaganda Claiming South Struck First Radio Free Asia 25 Jun 2021 -- Every year in the run up to the anniversary of the June 25, 1950 North Korean invasion of South Korea that started the three-year conflict, residents of the North are bombarded with propaganda that falsely claims it was the South who set off the conflict.
- Press Statement by Ri Son Gwon, Minister of Foreign Affairs of DPRK KCNA 23 Jun 2021 -- Ri Son Gwon, minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, released the following press statement on June 23:
- North Korea to Replace 10,000 Workers Dispatched to China Radio Free Asia 23 Jun 2021 -- North Korea is planning to repatriate 10,000 workers dispatched to earn foreign currency in China but were stranded by the coronavirus pandemic, replacing them with younger recruits, sources in China told RFA.
- Emergency Epidemic Prevention Work Intensified in DPRK KCNA 22 Jun 2021 -- The emergency epidemic prevention units at all levels in the DPRK concentrate on making their work flawless.
- Kim Yo Jong Releases Press Statement KCNA 22 Jun 2021 -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on June 22:
- North Korea Sends Mixed Messages on Possibility of Talks with US VOA 22 Jun 2021 -- North Korea on Tuesday downplayed the possibility of talks with the United States, several days after its leader Kim Jong Un hinted at the possibility of dialogue.
- North Korean Women Say No to Motherhood Due to Economic Difficulties Radio Free Asia 22 Jun 2021 -- North Korean women are becoming more and more reluctant to have children due to poor economic conditions and food insecurity, rejecting government propaganda aimed at increasing the plummeting birthrate, sources in the country told RFA.
- Grain-Short North Korea Forces Housewives to 'Volunteer' for Farm Work Radio Free Asia 21 Jun 2021 -- North Korea is forcing nearly 14,000 housewives to move to rural areas to toil on farms as part of a project to boost food output after a bad harvest, South Korean media reported.
- Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to North Korea The White House 21 Jun 2021
- Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to North Korea The White House 21 Jun 2021
- 3rd Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Closes KCNA 19 Jun 2021 -- The 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) closed on June 18 after successfully wrapping up the discussion of the agendas as the millions of Party members, boundlessly inspired by the leadership of the great Party Central Committee, displayed their iron will to faithfully implement the important policies newly indicated by the Party.
- North Korea's Kim 'solemnly' pledges to overcome economic woes Press TV 19 Jun 2021 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has "solemnly" pledged to take his country out of its economic troubles deepened by the US sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic.
- S. Korean Nuclear Power Research Institute Reportedly Targeted by Pyongyang-Linked Hackers Sputnik 18 Jun 2021 -- North Korean hackers reportedly launched a cyberattack against the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), a Seoul-funded research institute in Korea, in May, resulting in a possible leak of valuable technologies to Pyongyang, Nikkei Asia said on Friday.
- N Korea does not rule out either 'dialog' or war with US Press TV 18 Jun 2021 -- North Korea's ruler does not rule out the prospect of dialog with the United States, but hardly closes the door to war either.
- Special North Korean Military Investigation Reveals Combat Reserve Supply Shortages Radio Free Asia 18 Jun 2021 -- A North Korean investigation into military combat reserve supplies has revealed shoddy maintenance and discrepancies between inventory records and actual supplies of food, fuel and medicine, sources in the military told RFA.
- Third-day Sitting of 3rd Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Held KCNA 18 Jun 2021 -- The third-day sitting of the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) continued on June 17 to confirm the fighting policies which would play the guiding role in further accelerating the historic advance of our Party and people for this year and practical tasks.
- North Korea Cracks Down on Illegal Phone Calls to China and South Korea Radio Free Asia 16 Jun 2021 -- North Korea has recently begun a harsh crackdown on international phone calls to South Korea and China, which hard-pressed residents of areas near the Chinese border rely on as channels for remittances from relatives in exile, sources in the country told RFA.
- North Korea Hints at 'Prolonged' COVID Lockdown VOA 16 Jun 2021 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned of "prolonged" anti-coronavirus measures, the latest indication his country's strict lockdown will not end anytime soon.
- Second-day Sitting of 3rd Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Held KCNA 17 Jun 2021 -- The second-day sitting of the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held on June 16 amid exceptionally high fighting will of all the participants in the plenary meeting to bring about without fail remarkable development-oriented changes in the overall state work by thoroughly implementing major policy tasks for 2021, the first year for accomplishing the new five-year plan set forth by the Party Congress.
- 3rd Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Opens KCNA 16 Jun 2021 -- The 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened on Tuesday amid unusual concern and expectations of all the Party members and all the people of the country keeping high fighting spirit braving manifold difficulties in their advance along the path indicated by the historic 8th Congress of the Party.
- In Frank Admission, Kim Jong-un Says North Korea Facing 'Tense' Food Situation Following Floods Sputnik 16 Jun 2021 -- North Korea has been a food insecure nation for much of the past 30 years, with the end of Soviet fuel subsidies in 1991 wreaking havoc on its mechanised agriculture. This, compounded with a period of droughts and floods, caused major food shortages in the 1990s, which turned into famines that killed between 240,000 and 600,000 people.
- Emergency Anti-epidemic Campaign Further Intensified in DPRK KCNA 15 Jun 2021 -- The emergency campaign for checking the inroads of the malignant coronavirus is further intensified across the country.
- North Korea Has Been Importing Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Since Early May Radio Free Asia 15 Jun 2021 -- North Korea has begun clandestinely importing Chinese COVID-19 vaccines since early May, but sources on both sides of the Sino-Korean border told RFA they were unsure how much vaccine is entering the reclusive country.
- South Korean President Says He's Willing to Share COVID Vaccines with North VOA 14 Jun 2021 -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he is willing to provide COVID-19 vaccine aid to North Korea if the isolated country agrees.
- Citizens Anxious as Food Prices Fluctuate in North Korea Radio Free Asia 14 Jun 2021 -- North Koreans are growing anxious as food prices have begun to fluctuate wildly amid uncertainty over the reopening of the border with China and the resumption of trade with Pyongyang's largest trading partner.
- N Korea's Kim calls for boosting military power: Report Press TV 12 Jun 2021 -- North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has said the country's military power should be boosted, state media KCNA said on Saturday.
- North Korea Preaches Self-Reliance to Struggling Citizens Radio Free Asia 11 Jun 2021 -- North Korea is forcing citizens to attend ideological education sessions promoting self-reliance as the solution to their economic woes, but the people say the sessions are an unhelpful waste of time, sources in the country told RFA.
- North Korea Diverts Electricity from Provinces to Keep Pyongyang Powered Radio Free Asia 10 Jun 2021 -- People living in North Korea's rural areas have been forced to stumble in the dark without electricity after authorities re-routed power to keep the capital Pyongyang connected 24 hours a day, sources in the country told RFA.
- N. Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Discussed Economic Policy with Senior Advisors VOA 08 Jun 2021 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered his senior advisors Monday to discuss his economic policies ahead of a key meeting of the North's ruling party.
- Elite North Korean Farm Sells Chicken Embryos as Heath Supplements to Raise Cash Radio Free Asia 08 Jun 2021 -- The meat and poultry farm that has served Kim Jong Un and the earlier two generations of North Korea's ruling family is selling chicken embryos as "nutritional supplements" and selling beef on the black market to fill holes in a budget hit hard by the coronavirus, sources in the country told RFA.
- Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Convenes Consultative Meeting of Senior Officials of WPK Central Committee and Provincial Party Committees KCNA 08 Jun 2021 -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, convened a consultative meeting of senior officials of the Party Central Committee and provincial Party committees at the office building of the Party Central Committee on June 7.
- North Korea Taps Workers in Russia to Fund Pyongyang Construction Radio Free Asia 07 Jun 2021 -- North Korean workers dispatched to Russia must now pay their government an additional U.S. $100 in so-called "loyalty funds" to help cover the costs of a 10,000-home construction project in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, sources in Russia told RFA.
- Anti-Epidemic Work Intensified in All Fields and Units of DPRK KCNA 06 Jun 2021 -- The worldwide health crisis getting worse due to the rapid spread of virus variants of high contagiousness and fatality demands that all people wage emergency anti-epidemic work on high alert.
- 3rd Plenary Meeting of 8th C.C. WPK to Be Convened KCNA 05 Jun 2021 -- The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) decided to convene the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Party in early June to make an interim summing-up of the execution of the immediate key policies of the Party and the state for 2021 advanced at the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Party and to discuss and decide a series of matters arising in dynamically and correctly pushing forward with them.
- 1st Meeting of Political Bureau of 8th C.C., WPK Held KCNA 05 Jun 2021 -- The 1st meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Party Central Committee on June 4.
- North Korea Restricts Local Markets, Pushing Sales in State-Owned Stores Radio Free Asia 03 Jun 2021 -- North Korean authorities are drastically cutting the size of local markets around the country, limiting their business to the sale of farm and livestock products and allowing the sale of other commodities only in state-owned stores, sources in the reclusive country say.
- North Korea's Kim Jong Un Establishes New Deputy Post Amid Speculation Sister is Possible Successor Sputnik 02 Jun 2021 -- Citing an unidentified source, Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday said that Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, established a first secretary post during a Supreme People's Assembly meeting in Pyongyang in January. There has been speculation over who will hold the position, with some sources naming his sister, Kim Yo Jong, as a candidate.
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