As NK News first reported, North Korea held an unsuccessful marathon on Sunday in its capital, Pyongyang.

Even North Korea’s notoriously unreliable propaganda outlets couldn’t hide the failure. NK News quotes one propaganda mouthpiece as reporting that “240 male and female runners from the DPRK, Netherlands, Sweden, the Czech Republic, UK and other countries competed in marathon, half-marathon and 10km race and 5km race.”

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