North Korean leader Kim Jong Un kept a busy public schedule this week amid rising inter-Korean tensions, traveling to China, posing for photos with military commanders and attending a drone exhibition.

But domestic-facing outlets made no mention of the growing standoff with the South, even as the DPRK military deployed artillery to prominent border locations.

Domestic outlets also continued to cover protests in Europe but described them broadly as struggles for the “right to livelihood,” rather than naming specific causes like housing shortages. The framing appears designed to portray capitalist countries as places where people