{"id":142919,"date":"2026-09-04T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/142919\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:54:08","slug":"kim-jong-un-steps-up-appearances-as-state-media-shields-public-from-us-hard-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/142919\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un steps up appearances as state media shields public from US hard line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tKim Jong Un steps up appearances as state media shields public from US hard line\t<\/p>\n<p>A recap of everything in state media this week, from defense shake-ups to teacher praise and Rason downpours<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-date\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/pro\/content_author\/seung-yeon-chung\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seung-Yeon Chung<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\tSeptember 4, 2026\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"935\" height=\"500\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kim Jong Un steps up appearances as state media shields public from US hard line\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/edited_2026-08-30_kcna_kim-jong-un-with-defense-scientists-935x500.png\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong Un with defense scientists credited with advancing the country\u2019s weapons system | Image: KCNA (Aug. 30, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made several public appearances in state media this week. On Saturday, he presided over the second meeting of the ninth Central Military Commission of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK), which replaced the defense minister and reshuffled senior military officers. He conferred awards the same day to scientists who made contributions to the country\u2019s defense. State media also reported that he attended a national conference of teachers on Wednesday, where he emphasized education as the most important state affair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Seoul\u2019s spy agency assessed this week that a summit<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved.<br \/>No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for<br \/>\n\t\t\tcommercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk<br \/>\n\t\t\tGroup.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un steps up appearances as state media shields public from US hard line A recap of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2993,4122,141,31,3750,34],"class_list":["post-142919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-culture","tag-foreign-relations","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-leadership","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}