Topic: Kim Yo Jong

North Korea is placing greater focus on disease prevention, describing efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic as more important than economic development.

A South Korean lawyer is suing North Korea's Kim Yo Jong over the demolition of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a memorial at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the 26th death anniversary of regime founder Kim Il Sung.

Threats of military action from Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, may have delayed South Korean plans for food aid, according to multiple press reports.

South Korean police raided the office of a North Korean defector who is under investigation for sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border, days after the defector said he distributed material using balloons.

After weeks of ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea took a step back on Wednesday with an announcement in state-run media that leader Kim Jong Un has called off military plans against South Korea.

South Korea said none of the helium balloons containing leaflets and anti-Pyongyang propaganda defectors launched on Monday evening made it to North Korea.

North Korea vowed on Monday to dump some 12 million propaganda leaflets on South Korea in a measure it calls "retaliatory punishment" as tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korean defectors in the South who were warned against delivering rice and other products across the border say they are going ahead with launch plans, unless the South Korean government requests a direct dialogue.

Japan's prime minister said Thursday Tokyo is working with the United States on potential plans to "safeguard" Japanese citizens on the Korean Peninsula.

An online aviation tracker has spotted Kim Jong Un's jet in North Korean airspace, according to a South Korean press report.

North Korean senior official Kim Yo Jong blamed the South for the decline in inter-Korea relations.

North Korea announced Wednesday it would deploy troops to the Kaesong Industrial Zone and Mount Kumgang tourist area as Pyongyang continued to ratchet up tensions.

Electricity supplied to North Korea from the South has been suspended since the detonation of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, Seoul confirmed Tuesday.

Days after issuing a threat, North Korea demolished the inter-Korean liaison office in the city of Kaesong on Tuesday, ratcheting up the tension on the Korean Peninsula.