North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited temporary classrooms for children displaced from their homes due to flooding, as state media continues to portray him as a “benevolent father” to deflect criticism of his failure to invest more in disaster prevention.

State-run television aired a new episode of the popular series “Shout of Faith” about a female revolutionary, in the latest effort to reinforce anti-Japanese sentiment among young people.

Print outlets run by the party and Cabinet urged mothers to be patriotic by giving birth and sending their children to labor assignments, after the leader