North Korea’s foreign ministry criticized the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team’s inaugural report as “provocative acts.” In its press statement, the ministry’s chief of External Policy office denounced the new sanctions monitoring group as “bogus” while legitimizing the country’s military cooperation with Russia. 

The country widely celebrated International Children’s Day, asserting that Kim Jong Un views children as “kings and queens” amid international criticism of the regime’s persistent human rights violations.

The party daily Rodong Sinmun shared stories of ideal parents who pushed their children to abandon university education and