On Sunday, North Korean media reported on a meeting of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission (CMC) led by Kim Jong Un. This meeting ended another three-week absence by the leader and, according to the Donga Ilbo, U.S. intelligence had already spotted his car and train in Kangdong County, a suburban district of Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un appears to have traveled there from Wonsan specifically to guide the meeting.

The exact date of the event was not mentioned in the report, but an order by Kim Jong Un released alongside coverage of the meeting revealed that it