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NKorea's Kim calls for better health care in hospital speech

by Associated Press
| March 17, 2020 9:27 PM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said it was “crucial” to improve his country’s health care system during a groundbreaking ceremony for a general hospital, state media reported Wednesday, amid worries about the coronavirus in the impoverished North.

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