North Korean leader Kim Jong Un kept a comparatively busy public schedule this week by delivering speeches at both the opening and closing ceremonies of a workshop for party propagandists and overseeing a missile test with his daughter. The pair later appeared together again at a soccer match between teams from the country’s missile agency and the department overseeing its weapons production, which Kim framed as a gesture of thanks to the scientists and workers behind the country’s recent military advances.

The harvest season, which largely determines the country’s annual grain production, is now