North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the fourth meeting of the Executive Policy Council of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim has ordered the distribution of aid to the border city of Kaesong after the area was locked down last month to fight the coronavirus, state media said Sunday. - Reuters
SEOUL, Aug 9 (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the distribution of aid to the border city of Kaesong after the area was locked down last month to fight the coronavirus, state media said Sunday.
Authorities raised the state of emergency to the maximum level for the city in July, saying they had discovered the country's first suspected virus case.
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