North Korean tennis players rumored to be undergoing ideological drilling as part of their punishment for taking a selfie with their South Korean counterparts at the Summer Olympics appeared on state television this week. In a short interview, athlete Kim Kum Yong said players gleaned valuable insights about table tennis in recent international matches. 

The fall harvest season, the most important part of the year for food-strapped North Korea, began in the country with government officials dispatched to farms. Although the DPRK’s “cereal bowl” was among the areas severely hit by floods in late July, recent