North Koreans line up to vote for a local election at a polling station in the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, November 26, 2023. North Korea held elections for local government representatives. (Photo by Cha Song Ho/AP Photo)





People attend the New Year's eve gala of youth and students at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)





People attend the New Year's eve gala of youth and students at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)





People attend the New Year's eve gala of youth and students at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)





People take part in celebrations to welcome in the new year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Kim Won Jin/AFP Photo)





Youth and students take part in celebrations to welcome in the new year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Kim Won Jin/AFP Photo)





North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends an event with students to celebrate the new year in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on January 2, 2024. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)





This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on January 5, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (top C) boarding a transport launcher as he inspects an important military vehicle production plant with his daughter Ju Ae (far R) at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by KCNA via KNS/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided on Monday, January 8, 2024, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, with his daughter visits a newly-built chicken farm in Hwangju County of North Hwanghae Province on Jan. 7, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: “KCNA” which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Photo)





This picture taken on January 14, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on January 15, 2024 shows civil servants of committees, provinces, and central agencies performing in Kim Il Sung Square to mark the first sports day of the new year in the snow in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA via KNS/AFP Photo)





North Korea's officials of commissions, ministries and national institutions run at Kim Il Sung Square on the first sports day of the New Year in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, January 14, 2024. (Photo by Cha Song Ho/AP Photo)





This picture taken on February 7, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on February 8, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un inspecting an industrial factory in Kimhwa, Kangwon-do. (Photo by KCNA via KNS/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by the North Korean government, youth groups perform during a dancing event to celebrate the 76th founding anniversary of the country's army in North Korea, Thursday, February 8, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: “KCNA” which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Photo)





North Korean children play folk games at the Kim Il Sung Square on the occasion of Lunar New Year in Pyongyang, North Korea Saturday, February 10, 2024. (Photo by Cha Song Ho/AP Photo)





View of what appears to be an inspection test of a new surface-to-sea missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on February 15, 2024. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)





People bow as they visit the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to pay their respects on the occasion of the 82nd birthday of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, known as the “Day of the Shining Star”, on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on February 16, 2024. (Photo by Kim Won Jin/AFP Photo)





North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a factory in Songchon County, North Korea on February 28, 2024. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)





Kim Jong-un attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a factory in Songchon County, North Korea on February 29, 2024. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)





North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects field training of troops at a major military operations base in the western region of the country, as he ordered heightened readiness for war, KCNA news agency reported, in North Korea, in this picture released on March 7, 2024 by the Korean Central News Agency. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)