North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), where he once again affirmed his commitment to strengthen the military “with a goal of overtaking the world” and announced a new nationwide project to modernize coal mines. 

This week also marked the 76th anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War — state media was filled with propaganda urging the public never to forget the past. North Korea held a series of anti-U.S. rallies where attendees vowed to annihilate their “sworn enemy,” the U.S., and “puppet Korea