North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u200bbegan reviewing the country’s progress in the past five \u200byears that brought “great transformation” during the \u200bsecond day of \u2060a key party congress, state media KCNA said \u200bon Saturday. North \u200cKorea’s Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party opened on Thursday \u200band is expected to last a few days. As the country’s biggest political event held \u200cevery \u200cfive years, \u200bit sets policy and can bring changes in leadership roles beneath supreme commander Kim. North Korea’s ruling party hailed “remarkable \u200bsuccesses” in fields such as politics, economy, culture, defence, diplomacy under Kim’s rule during the \u200bpast five years, KCNA said. The ruling party’s Central Committee focused on finding shortcomings first before focusing on successes, KCNA said, but did not \u200cmention what the shortcomings were. KCNA said on Friday that 5,000 members of the \u2060ruling Workers’ Party are \u200battending the meeting. There was no mention of major foreign dignitaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u200bbegan reviewing the country’s progress in the past five \u200byears that brought “great transformation” during the \u200bsecond day of \u2060a key party congress, state media KCNA said \u200bon Saturday. North \u200cKorea’s Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party opened on Thursday \u200band is expected to last a few days. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n