North Korea leader Kim Jong-un has called to hold a plenary session of the ruling Workers’ Party to address the “prevailing tense situation”.
According to Reuters news reports, the plenary sessions has come in the wake of North Kim’s second summit with United States President Donald Trump in February. Trump-Kim meeting in Vietnam was cut short due to disagreements over the issues, due to which both leaders failed to reach a nuclear agreement over Pyongyang’s full denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
On Wednesday, state-run KCNA news agency said the ruling party will gather to “discuss and decide the new orientation and ways of struggle in line with the need of the prevailing revolutionary situation”.
During the political bureau of the central committee meeting of the ruling party on Tuesday, Kim told officials that they require to work together and responsibly in order to present his strategy in the face of foreign pressure.
KCNA stated: “The Supreme Leader urged the need for leading officials to fully display a high sense of responsibility and creativity, and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude in an attitude befitting the masters of the revolution and construction under the prevailing tense situation and thus follow through on the new strategic line of the Party.”
While Kim has used his New Year’s speech to throw a warning to the US over his “new path” if Washington continues to maintain sanctions, the officials of South Korea stated they don’t expect that this week’s meeting would lead Kim shifting his focus from the economy.
At a briefing on Wednesday, South Korean unification ministry spokesperson Baik Tae-hyun said, “We believe that last year’s new strategic line, the all-out focus on economic construction, will remain.”
The ruling party’s plenary session comes after reports confirming South Korean Moon Jae-in has paid a visit to Washington DC to meet US president Trump.