North Korean state media offered no coverage of Kim Yo Jong’s statements attacking South Korea this week, leaving domestic audiences in the dark about rising border tensions.

Criticism of the ROK’s Hoguk military exercises published for foreign readers did not appear in domestic-facing media either. 

The silence appears to underscore Pyongyang’s broader effort to treat South Korea as a separate, hostile state unworthy of citizens’ attention. 

At home, the fall harvest neared completion, with state media claiming more rice has been harvested than at the same point last year.[/p