North Korea ignores a hotline call from South Korea, Seoul says, hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister warned the South and the US over annual joint military exercises, and shortly after the two Koreas agreed to reestablish the emergency communication line.

North Korea says the United Kingdom will “pay the price” for the imposition of new sanctions on Pyongyang.

A United Nations (UN) human rights expert calls on the UN Security Council to “reconsider [the] sanctions” imposed on North Korea as they are worsening an alleged humanitarian crisis in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.

North Korea dismisses accusations by the United States that it poses a cyber threat to America, saying the allegations aim to tarnish Pyongyang’s image.