North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warns about possible food shortages and urges the country to brace for extended COVID-19 restrictions.
President Joe Biden calls North Korea our biggest foreign policy threat after the country launched ballistic missiles on Thursday for the second time in a week.shortages and urged the country to brace for extended COVID-19 restrictions as he opened a major political conference to discuss national efforts to salvage a broken economy.
The North’s economy has deteriorated amid pandemic border closures, which choked off trade with China, while devastating typhoons and floods last summer decimated crops. KCNA said Kim also “set forth the tasks for the state to maintain perfect anti-epidemic state” — suggesting North Korea would extend its pandemic lockdown despite the stress on its economy.
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