North Korea dissolved a pro-unification organization that has been around for nearly eight decades this week, marking the latest victim of the regime’s new hard-line policy toward South Korea.

Kim Song Nam, the head of the ruling party’s international department, finished up a trip to China and journeyed to Hanoi, where he met with Vietnamese party officials to discuss efforts to enhance ties.

North Korea’s mission to the U.N. office in Geneva denounced the EU’s call for an update to the Commission of Inquiry report on DPRK human rights, as