SEOUL, Apr 05 (Yonhap) – Cell leaders of the ruling Labor Party in North Korea paid tribute to the former leaders’ mausoleum in Pyongyang, the North Korea Central News Agency (KCNA ), apparently before attending their first congress in over three years.
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State media said earlier that the conference of secretaries of the “Party cells” was to be held earlier this month to discuss “matters concerning the prioritization of the position and role” of the cells without specifying a date. . Party cells designate the most basic units, made up of five to 30 people.
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“Participants of the 6th Korean Labor Party (WPK) Cell Secretary Conference visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il-sung and President Kim Jong-il are located,” the President said. KCNA.
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“The participants reinforced the strong will to bring about a revolutionary turn in the work of the Party cells as required by the new period of upsurge and turn in socialist construction,” she added.
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The KCNA did not disclose the date of the visit, but it appears to have taken place over the weekend, apparently before their attendance at the scheduled conference.
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The Party cell conference will mark the third of its kind since current leader Kim Jong-un took office after his father Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack in late 2011. It was held for the last time. in December 2017.
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Kim has attended the two previous gatherings.
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The event comes as North Korea works to build support for the political goals and directions put forward at the 8th Party Congress in January, where Kim admitted the failure of his previous economic development plan. and disclosed a new growth program.
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The scheduled conference will also take place amid heightened tensions after Pyongyang fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, in a first such test since US President Joe Biden took office. During the 8th Party Congress, North Korea announced that it revised its rules for holding the congress every five years and that this would also apply to conferences of cell secretaries and Party secretaries at the highest levels. low.
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