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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says its troops have exchanged fire with North Korea along their tense land border. The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul says North Korean troops fired several bullets at a South Korean guard post inside the heavily fortified border between the countries on Sunday. The military says in a statement that South Korea fired two rounds in response after issuing a warning broadcast. It says South Korea suffered no casualties. The fire exchange took place a day after North Korea reported its leader Kim Jong Un’s first public appearance in about 20 days amid intense speculation about his health.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has appeared in public for the first time in 20 days after his absence triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill. The Korean Central News Agency says Kim attended a ceremony marking the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang with other senior officials, including his sister, Kim Yo Jong. who many believe would take over if her brother is suddenly unable to rule. Videos and photos show Kim wearing a black Mao suit and constantly smiling, walking around facilities, applauding, cutting a huge red ribbon with a scissor handed by his sister. Speculation about his health swirled after he missed the April 15 birthday celebration for his late grandfather.
UNDATED (AP) — Fear and frustration are raging as fast as the coronavirus in some juvenile detention centers, with riots and escapes reported in facilities in hard hit New York and Louisiana. Parents and youth advocates say some kids are being kept in isolation up to 23 hours a day. Family visits have been cut off, programs have been halted and school has sometimes been reduced to educational packets. As the number of COVID-19 cases grows, some facilities are also shuttling youths back and forth between centers, adding to tensions. Experts and child advocates say any youth who can be safely returned home should be released.
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts sheriff's department says a group of about 10 federal immigration detainees who refused to be tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 caused extensive damage to the center in Dartmouth where they are being held. In a news release, the Bristol County sheriff's department says the inmates involved in the Friday evening incident at the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center reported multiple symptoms of COVID-19 and they refused to be tested. They then rushed officers and barricaded themselves inside the facility, ripped washing machines and pipes off the wall, broke windows and “trashed the entire unit.” A special response team restrained the detainees. Damage was estimated at more than $25,000.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett doesn’t know how the economy will recover from the coronavirus outbreak shutdown, but he remains optimistic in the long-term future of the United States. Buffett said Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway’s online annual meeting that there’s no way to predict the economic future right now because the possibilities are still too varied. Berkshire’s meeting was being held without any of the roughly 40,000 shareholders who typically attend. Instead of answering questions in a packed arena filled with shareholders, Buffett spoke in front of a camera for the online meeting. The normal shareholder celebration Berkshire holds each spring was cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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