N. Korea convenes top-level meeting over 'tense situation': KCNA.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a full meeting Wednesday of a top committee of the ruling Workers' Party to address what he described as the"prevailing tense situation", state media reported.
But the North's official Korean Central News Agency appeared to indicate that Kim may be focussing on Pyongyang's continued push to develop its economy. Last April Kim declared that the ruling party's"new strategic line" would be"socialist economic construction" and its quest for nuclear development was complete.
But the failure by the pair to reach agreement at their second summit in Hanoi on walking back Pyongyang's nuclear programme in exchange for relaxation of the measures against it has raised questions over the future of the wider process.
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