North Korea paid tribute to the country’s workers on International Workers’ Day with a series of events across the country, but in practice the annual celebrations simply served as yet another propaganda vehicle to reinforce loyalty to leader Kim Jong Un.

After the conclusion of the 11th Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League (SPYL), North Korea’s main organization to mobilize young citizens in support of the ruling party’s directives, the delegates met Kim and toured sites of political significance in Pyongyang.

One such site was the recently constructed Memorial Museum of