North Korea celebrated the “heroism” of mothers who raise children to be soldiers for the country this week, calling for women to give birth to more kids as the DPRK marked Mother’s Day.

A DPRK defense official slammed the U.S. for selling weapons to South Korea and Japan in a statement, in the country’s latest effort to blame Washington for exacerbating peninsula tensions and frame it as hypocritical for criticizing North Korean arms sales.

But state media was silent about celebrations for the country’s first missile industry day, which was introduced