North Korean state television claimed that Kim Jong Un personally ordered measures to save the life of a man who was severely injured in a workplace accident, seeking to portray the leader as a loving father figure even as he allegedly deploys thousands of soldiers to serve as “cannon fodder” in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Pyongyang’s defense ministry slammed U.S.-ROK-Japan joint exercises earlier this month and the deployment of U.S. strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula, threatening to take military action “if it is judged necessary.”

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