SEOUL (REUTERS) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the ruling party will hold a congress next year to decide a new five-year plan, with a party meeting noting serious delays in improving the national economy, state media said on Thursday (Aug 20).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that the ruling party will hold a congress next year to decide a new five-year plan, with a party meeting noting serious delays in improving the national economy, state media said on Thursday .
The meeting comes as the isolated country deals with international sanctions and struggles to contain the novel coronavirus and cope with damage from recent flooding after weeks of heavy rain. The plenary meeting called the implementation of the decisions made at the last congress an"indomitable struggle" and said the party had made"a great revolutionary turn", it reported.
"Thereby planned attainment of the goals for improving the national economy have been seriously delayed and the people's living standard not been improved remarkably."
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