North Korea has announced that it will hold a Supreme People's Assembly consisting of representatives from all over the world later next month.
North Korea is expected to hold a Workers' Party of Korea convention ahead of this to show a new economic plan, which may indicate economic and foreign policy policies based on the results of the party convention.
The Workers' Party of Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, dated 5th, reported that the Supreme People's Assembly will be held late next month as a decision of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.
The Supreme People's Assembly is held once or twice a year with representatives from each region to decide on national budgets, revisions to laws, and personnel affairs of national institutions. It has been held since April.
This time, North Korea is expected to hold a party convention for the first time in five years in early next month before the Supreme People's Assembly, showing a new five-year plan for economic construction.
The agenda of the Supreme People's Assembly is not clear, but it may indicate national budget decisions, legislation, and foreign policy policies with the new US administration in mind as a result of the party convention. ..
On the other hand, the Rodong Sinmun also reported that a new law was adopted to strengthen ideological control to prevent the influx of ideas and culture contrary to the system, and North Korea was hit by the new coronavirus infection countermeasures. , While it is pointed out that people's lives are becoming more difficult, we are trying to tighten the system.