North Korea condemned the South Friday for holding
MILITARY drills, saying the situation was returning to before the diplomatic rapprochement of 2018, as leader
Kim Jong Un -- whose health was the subject of intense speculation in recent weeks -- reached out to traditional ally
Beijing.
Kim sent Chinese leader
Xi Jinping a diplomatic communication congratulating him for China's "success" in controlling the novel
Coronavirus epidemic, the state news agency KCNA reported.
Kim told Xi he was as pleased with China's successes as his own, KCNA reported, adding he "sent militant greetings to every member of the Communist Party of China".