North Korea issues terse coverage of South Korean presidential election

Newspapers featuring South Korean President Lee Jae-myung's election victory on their front pages are displayed at a newspaper stand at a supermarket in McLean, Virginia in the U.S. on June 4, 2025. Yonhap

SEOUL, June 5 (AJP) - North Korea's state media on Thursday reported the result of this year's South Korean presidential election, which took place here earlier this week.

The state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper devoted just two sentences to it, saying that Lee Jae-myung was elected as the next president in the South's June 3 election, "just two months after [former President Yoon Suk Yeol' was impeached" over his botched Dec. 3 declaration of martial law last year.

The report came quick on the heels of the election, although it did not carry any commentary on it.

North Korea had not reacted at all to South Korea's political situation since its brief coverage of Yoon's ouster in early April, as the isolated country rarely covers news from the outside world including South Korea.