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The Guardian says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has criticised his country’s response to its first officially confirmed Covid-19 outbreak as “immature”.

The Metro says spiralling numbers of Covid cases have led to a major medical mobilisation in North Korea.

The Guardian says North Korea has announced its first Covid-19 death amid an “explosive” outbreak of fever, state media said on Friday, one day after the regime admitted for the first time that it was tackling a coronavirus outbreak.

The Metro says North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown to control its first acknowledged Covid-19 outbreak of the pandemic.

The Guardian says North Korea has declared a “severe national emergency” after confirming its first outbreak of Covid-19, prompting its leader, Kim Jong-un, to vow to quickly eliminate the virus.

Aljazeera says North Korea has confirmed its first outbreak of COVID-19, raising fears of a humanitarian disaster in one of the world’s only unvaccinated countries as it goes into a nationwide lockdown.

Aljazeera says the sister of Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with nuclear retaliation if provoked after Seoul highlighted its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North.

The Metro says North Korea touted its nuclear weapons and advanced missiles on Tuesday, and claimed they are the only one standing up to the US by ‘shaking the world’ with missile tests.

Aljazeera says North Korea fired what may have been a ballistic missile on Tuesday morning, Japan and South Korea said, less than a week after Pyongyang tested what it said was a hypersonic weapon.

The Metro says A student in North Korea has been sentenced to death by a firing squad for selling copies of Netflix’s hit show Squid Game.