The DPRK’s vice foreign minister denounced U.N. chief Antonio Guterres as a “servant of the U.S.” for criticizing the country’s latest failed satellite launch, insisting that Pyongyang has the right to a space program to help defend itself against external threats.

North Korea held more than a half dozen ceremonies to give farmers new houses this week, according to state media, in an effort to incentivize workers to increase production to solve the persistent problem of food shortages.

And state media devoted coverage to efforts to mobilize fishermen for the spring