Seoul, Feb 26 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned that ‘terrible retaliatory attacks’ will be carried out against any force committing hostile military acts against his country during a military parade marking a key party congress, state media reported on Thursday.Kim made the remarks at the nighttime parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Wednesday as the high-profile ruling party gathering drew to a close that day, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).”Our arm…
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Seoul, Feb 24 (IANS) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, has been promoted to department head at the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea during the ongoing party congress, state media reported on Tuesday.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published a press release from the first plenary meeting of the ninth central committee of the ruling party, naming Kim Yo-jong as one of the 17 newly elected department directors of the party’s new central committee.She was previ…
Seoul, Feb 21 (IANS) North Korea said on Saturday it has achieved “remarkable” success in implementing major policies over the past five years, as Pyongyang is holding a key party congress amid expectations that it will unveil its future policy direction.With North Korean leader Kim Jong-un present, the country held a policy review session on Friday, the second day of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s ninth party congress, the country’s biggest political event since 2021, reports Yonhap, quot…
Seoul, Feb 17 (IANS) North Korea said on Tuesday it has completed a landmark housing project to build 50,000 living units in Pyongyang ahead of a party congress later this month.”The construction of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang, powerfully carried on as the top-priority task of the historic eighth congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has been successfully concluded to be an epoch-making success in the new era of the comprehensive national rejuvenation,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) sai…
Seoul, Feb 11 (IANS) North Korea said on Wednesday that a landmark housing project launched at a previous party congress to build 50,000 living units in Pyongyang will soon be complete, marking a major preparatory step ahead of another party congress later this month.”The goal of building 50,000 living units in the capital, set at the eighth party congress, is nearing … final completion according to the party-set schedule,” the Rodong Sinmun, the party-run newspaper, said.The housing construct…
Seoul, Feb 8 (IANS) North Korea will hold a key party congress in late February, the North’s state media reported Sunday, in a rare meeting where leader Kim Jong-un is expected to announce his ruling policy, including military, diplomacy and economy. The decision by the North Korean ruling party’s political bureau came at a meeting of the political bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) the previous day, which was presided over by party secretary Jo Yong-won under K…
Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS) North Korea has inaugurated a major greenhouse farm in Sinuiju, a northwestern city hit hard by flooding in 2024, with leader Kim Jong-un calling it a “wonderful achievement” ahead of the country’s upcoming party congress, according to state media Monday.Kim attended the ceremony inaugurating the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm the previous day, reports Yonhap, quoting the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It took place around one year after the groundbreaking ceremony was …
Seoul, Jan 23 (IANS) North Korea has yet to announce the schedule for its upcoming party congress, which would be its first in five years, amid speculation in Seoul that the event may take place next month. Last month, the North convened a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea as part of preparations for the once-every-five-years party congress, at which the country is expected to set long-term policy visions for the economy, foreign policy and other areas.Results from the congre…
Seoul, Jan 20 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sacked a vice premier of the North’s cabinet over the official’s irresponsibility in modernising a machinery plant, state media reported on Tuesday, in a rare public dismissal ahead of a key party congress. Kim dismissed Vice Premier Yang Sung-ho ‘on the spot’ at an inauguration ceremony of the first-stage modernisation project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex on Monday, according to the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)Kim said th…
Seoul, Jan 13 (IANS) North Korea has replaced its top officials in charge of guarding leader Kim Jong-un in recent years, Seoul’s unification ministry said on Tuesday. North Korea has changed the chiefs of three major North Korean units defending the security of the North’s leader — the Guard Office of the ruling party, the Guard Department of the State Affairs Commission and the Guard Command — the ministry said in its analysis of the major reshuffle of North Korean officials in 2025.The mini…