Opening plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a plenary session of the Central Committee Workers’ Party of Korea. The agenda of the conference has not been announced.

The meeting will evaluate the implementation of state policy in 2022 and decide on “a series of important issues,” according to North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency.

According to KCNA, the participating members were fully aware of their pivotal task in the historic struggle for the prosperity and development of the country and the happiness of the people.

The plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea took place in the context of North Korea’s recent repeated ballistic missile tests.

Delegates attend the 5th plenary session of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang, June 8, 2022. (Photo: KCNA/VNA)

According to KCNA, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea began on June 8 in the capital Pyongyang. The meeting took place as the US and South Korea increased their warnings about the risk of the incident nuclear test North Korea’s first in nearly five years. Since the beginning of the year, North Korea has increased its weapons tests, including intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Meanwhile, officials and experts in South Korea said Kim Jong-un could put relations with the United States and South Korea on the agenda amid a diplomatic stalemate. During the previous plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea in December 2021, Kim Jong-un once again reiterated his commitment to promote the military nuclear program and ordered the production of weapons systems. more powerful and sophisticated.

This is also the first meeting held after the new government of President Yoon Suk-yeol came to power in South Korea. Therefore, public opinion is interested in the main contents of the meeting related to policies with the new government in Korea and nuclear testing.

At the end of 2021, North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Party and decided on many important issues.

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