North Korea makes veiled COVID-19 accusation against South Korea

North Korea on Friday claimed the cause of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, saying people who had touched "alien things" near the border with South Korea had been first infected with the novel coronavirus.The claim came as North Korea has long criticized the South for failing to prevent defectors from launching balloons across the border that contain leaflets critical of leader Kim Jong Un's rule -- a recent source of tension between the two Koreas.By blaming Seoul for the virus's entry into North Korea, Pyongyang is expected to adopt a hardline stance against the administration of South Ko…READ FULL ARTICLE