DPRK state-run media on Thursday urged citizens to focus the country’s entire capabilities into the “battle against high temperature and drought” as both Koreas suffer a record-breaking heatwave.

An editorial on the front page of ruling party organ the Rodong Sinmun said the heatwave and drought damage was “severe.”

“The phenomenon of high temperatures is the greatest natural disaster that didn’t occur in other years, but it’s a difficulty we can overcome.”

Citing data provided by the country’s hydro-meteorological Service, the newspaper said temperatures in the DPRK had reached a blistering – and record-breaking – 40 degree Celsius (104 degrees