South Korea struggles to contain wildfires that have killed 28
Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country's worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 27 people, forced at least 37,000 ...
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From public executions to ‘traitor’ notices: North Korea escapees describe horrors of Covid-era repression
Draconian measures undertaken by North Korea ... about Covid and were only told to avoid meeting in groups and sitting next to each other. There was no clarity on the number of Covid cases or ...
The Korea Times14d
COVID anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks
At the time, there were 118,000 COVID-19 cases reported in 114 countries and 4,291 total deaths. As in other parts of the country, Hampton Roads and Virginia took extraordinary measures to protect ...