Pyongyang’s seventh congress will begin on May 6, the first in over three decades, triggering speculation over the reason behind the meeting. In March, North Korean officials presented him at a press conference where he said he had spied for South Korea and tried to spread religious ideas among North Koreans.
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In recent weeks, North Korea fired a barrage of missiles and artillery shells into the sea in an apparent response to annual South Korea-U.S. military drills that end Saturday.
North Korea, which was hit with tough new global sanctions in March for conducting another nuclear test and long-range rocket launch, has had to step up efforts to participate in markets overseas to generate foreign currency to finance the regime of national leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korean state news agency KCNA reported: “The accused confessed to all crimes he had committed and gathered and offered information on its party, state and military affairs to the South Korean puppet regime, which are tantamount to state subversive plots and espionage”, according to Reuters.
The quality of candy has dropped significantly since the days of Kim Il Sung, the source added.
The Washington-based non-governmental organization has focused on shedding light on North Korea’s human rights violations and improving the North’s rights records. Outsiders say North Korea seeks to use its US detainees to wring concessions from Washington.
Kim Jong Un seems to enjoy his job.
“The first thing is to advance the pace of economic building for a powerful nation”, he said. The second is to improve the people’s living standards and to find the best, optimum ways to improve the people’s living standards under these circumstances, and the third, to strengthen our national defence capabilities.
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Ri said the convening of the congress is itself of high symbolic importance. He was arrested while receiving a USB stick containing military and nuclear secrets from a source. ‘If we continueon this path of confrontation, this will lead to very catastrophic results, not only for the two countries but for the whole entire world as well. The North does not have nuclear-powered submarines capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean undetected to reach the United States. Last time the country carried out a similar event was in 1980.
