North Korean leadership activity in July primarily focused on a few major events and the majority were in the political sector. Several events in late July were related to the 62nd anniversary of the 1953 Korean War armistice on July 27, known in the North as Victory Day. In addition to the Victory Day observances, North Korea held local-level elections on July 19, which provided the regime its first opportunity for large-scale changes in lower-level assemblies since Kim Jong Un’s ascension in December 2011. These events, along with a meeting of all DPRK ambassadors in Pyongyang, have provided the Pyongyang regime with