North Korean state media devoted significant airtime and newspaper space this week to reforestation efforts to mark Tree-planting Day, even going so far as to single out incompetent units for failing to take proper measures in the country’s long-running “war with nature.”

The DPRK’s foreign ministry also published a speech attacking the U.N. Security Council and calling for the dismantling of the U.N. Command that upholds the Korean War Armistice Agreement, even as war rages in Ukraine.

Finally, state television reported on discharged soldiers who have “volunteered” to work on rural