FILE - Kim Song Ju Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering the school in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 3, 2020. Only a month after North Korea acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak was sickening its people, the country may be preparing to declare victory. The daily updates from state-controlled media say cases are plummeting. Its propaganda insists North Korea has avoided mass deaths despite desperately poor health care and what outsiders see as a long record of ignoring its people’s suffering. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)