N. Korea holds key party meeting to discuss ‘important policy issues’
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiles during a visit to a military farm in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 9, 2019. The visit marked Kim's first public appearance since the breakdown of working-level nuclear talks with the United States in Sweden on Oct. 5. (Yonhap). Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
SEOUL, Dec 29, 2019, Yonhap. North Korea has held the first-day session of a previously announced meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party to discuss “important policy issues for new victory in our revolution,” state media said Sunday, Yonhap reported.
“Guided” by leader Kim Jong-un at the venue in Pyongyang on Saturday, it was to discuss important matters in “the building of the state and national defence,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in English.
The plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee has been a key focus of attention, as Pyongyang has set the year-end deadline for Washington to offer concessions in stalled nuclear talks.
Pyongyang has threatened to take a “new way” unless the Trump administration brings a fresh offer.
“The immediate orientation of the struggle of the Party of Korea WPK (Workers’ Party of Korea) and the state and important policy issues for new victory in our revolution under the present situation were brought up as agendas of the plenary meeting,” the KCNA said.
The meeting was held to “overcome the manifold and harsh trials and difficulties and further accelerate the development of the revolution with transparent anti-imperialist independent stand and firm will,” it said.
It added that the session came at a “watershed” time of when a “new historic transformation” is taking placing in relevant undertakings.
By Koh Byung-joon
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