KIM BLASTS PANDEMIC RESPONSE AS NORTH KOREAN OUTBREAK SURGES

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG, ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted officials over slow medicine deliveries and ordered his military to respond to the surging but largely undiagnosed COVID-19 crisis that has left 1.2 million people ill with fever and 50 dead in a matter of days, state media said Monday