North Korea's new wall: barriers built during the pandemic to seal borders

As the world concentrated its efforts on the battle against Covid, North Korea embarked on a parallel enterprise: the construction of a mammoth barrier along its northern borders. To reveal the work of Pyongyang are the satellite images analyzed by Reuters and by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, based in the United States. The photographs show the attempt to seal the borders.

North Korea has accused the United States and South Korea of conducting a tactic of constant "nuclear blackmail" against it, threatening to react to the "warmongering madness" of the two allied countries in response to their joint military exercises.

An editorial by the official Korean Central News Agency denounces the US-South Korean plot to crush North Korea militarily, calling it "a clear indication that the enemy's warmongering madness has reached a point beyond the which cannot be ignored".

“The constant hoopla about nuclear war by the United States and its puppets and weathercocks will trigger responses,” the editorial continues, referring to the agreement to fully extend the US nuclear deterrent in South Korea, and harsh sentences targeting North Korea's nuclear and ballistics programs by the G7.