North Korea leader warns over virus and typhoon

In a rare display of urgency, Nor th Korean leader Kim Jong-un held his third high-level political confer-ence in as many weeks, where he raised alarm about the nation’s coro-navirus response and a typhoon forecast to hit the country.

During an enlarged meeting of the politburo of the ruling Workers’ Party, Mr Kim lamented unspecified “defects” and “shor tcomings” in the country’s’ antivirus campaign. He urged they be corrected swiftly.

Mr Kimal so called for thorough preparations to minimised a mage from Typhoon Bavi, which comes weeks after torrential rains caused flooding and massive damage to homes and crops, inflicting further pain to an econo - my ravaged by Us-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and b order closures amid the pandemic.