Kim Jong Un and the leadership of North Korea came under their most intense pressure yet in September, after Donald Trump told the UN he hoped not to have to “totally destroy” the DPRK, and tweeted that Kim Jong Un and foreign minister Ri Yong Ho “won’t be around much longer” if, as seems certain, Ri was echoing Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un’s immediate reaction to Donald Trump is worth noting, but so too were the other moments that transpired in September’s official DPRK reporting of senior leadership activities, including: