The Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean newspaper that serves as the official mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, reported officials were ordered to implement emergency measures to protect factories and crops against the storm. It also said people's "foremost focus" should be "ensuring the safety of" propaganda portraits of its current leader Kim Jong Un, his father Kim Jong Il and North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung, as well as statues, mosaics, murals and other monuments to the Kims.