North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un lifted a lockdown in a major city near the border with
South Korea where thousands had been quarantined for weeks over
Coronavirus worries, state media said Friday.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency also said Kim replaced Kim Jae Ryong as premier following an evaluation of the Cabinet’s economic performance and appointed Kim Tok Hun as his successor.
Entering the last year of an ambitious five-year national development plan, Kim Jong Un in December declared a “frontal breakthrough” against international
sanctions while urging his nation to stay resilient in a struggle for economic self-reliance.