2022 in North Korea
The following is a list of events from the year 2022 in North Korea. Incumbents

Events

March
 25 March – North Korea tested its longest-range ICBM. May
 12 May
 COVID-19 pandemic – Pyongyang declared a "severe national emergency", after confirmed its first case of COVID-19. Kim Jong-un and the North Korean government orders all cities and counties throughout the country into a nationwide lockdown of North Korea, isolating all working, production and residential units, as the whole towns and cities along with the streets of the capital Pyongyang were all locked down, closing the borders of North Korea to all foreign nations including foreign trade and outsiders. North Korean citizens are forced to stay in their homes in every provinces, many North Koreans are banned from leaving the country or attempt to go travel abroad for all foreign countries, all foreign visitors and journalists are strictly forbidden to enter the country, rail transports and airports are suspended. North Korea was entirely closed. Anyone who is caught violating quarantine measures will face harsh punishments by imprisonment, executions or sentenced to hard labor in prison camps if they tried to leave their homes or attempt to escape the Hermit Kingdom was always punishable by facing execution or sent to labor camps after the North Korean government crackdown on COVID rule breakers before and after they were arrested by the secret police, the Ministry of State Security. only China a year were allowed to enter North Korea for trading and banking purposes. Sunan district of Pyongyang fired three short-range missiles east of the Korean peninsula, two days after Yoon Suk-yeol took office as President of South Korea. 13 May – State media confirmed six deaths and 350,000 new cases of COVID-19. Deaths
 27 January – Ri Yong-mu, North Korean senior official who was a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea and vice-marshal of the Korean People's Army (born 1925)
 19 May – Hyon Chol Hae, military officer (born 1934)
 19 September – Pak Yong-il, politician, vice-chairman of the standing committee of the SPA (since 2019) (born 1966)

References

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