North Korea promotes dog-meat soup as heat-wave remedy, with Kim Jong Un cast as sharing the hardship
North Korean state media is touting cooling foods like dog-meat soup and samgyetang to cope with a heat wave, while portraying Kim Jong Un as enduring the heat alongside ordinary citizens; temperatures hit 36.7C (98.1F), the hottest on record, with coverage blending health tips and tourism updates and reinforcing a propaganda narrative of the leader’s perseverance, though no official heat-death data has been released.