A recap of everything in state media this week, from modernizing the coal industry to venerating DPRK’s founder
North Korea’s leadership continued its recent focus on advancing regional economic development alongside military modernization, reiterating the importance of Kim Jong Un’s vision in a week that marked founding leader Kim Il Sung’s death anniversary.
Kim Jong Un’s inspection of ongoing construction projects for industrial facilities, a hospital and a service center in the eastern county of Rakwon highlighted his push to advance “underdeveloped” regions. But his economic tour, which came on the same day he oversaw a new warship’s weapons test, also underscored the area’s significance for North Korea’s
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