Kim Song Ju Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering the school in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 3, 2020. - AP
SEOUL (AFP): North Korean children returned to their classrooms in face masks on Wednesday (June 3) as schools reopened after the new term was delayed for months by coronavirus precautions.
Pyongyang has not confirmed a single case of the deadly disease that swept the world after first emerging in neighbouring China, but has imposed strict rules, including closing its borders and putting thousands of its people into isolation.
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