North Korea: the health and security situation on the menu of a new Party meeting
The Labor Party in North Korea is holding a "plenary" meeting this weekend, the objective of which is to assess the effectiveness of the party's policies in all sectors, economic, health, but also military.
PA
Text by: RFI Follow
2 mins
The Labor Party in North Korea is holding a “plenary” meeting this weekend.
A gathering of the authorities in power which takes place in a health context which is still as complex as the state media continue to announce tens of thousands of new cases of "fevers" every day.
These meetings aim to assess the effectiveness of the party's policies in all sectors, economic, health, but also military, while both South Korea and the United States claim that a North Korean nuclear test seems imminent. .
Advertising
Read more
With our correspondent in Seoul,
Nicolas Rocca
Hundreds of high dignitaries gathered without masks in the premises of the Party, the image was difficult to imagine a few weeks ago when Kim Jong-un appeared doubly masked.
The
health situation
will be on the menu for the next few days of the meeting, but it would also be a question of security according to Cheong Seong-chang, director of the center for North Korean studies at the Sejong institute: “
Kim Jong-un could justify the seventh test nuclear power, explaining that the external environment has deteriorated with the seizure of power by a conservative president in South Korea and the intensification of joint military exercises with the United States.
»
The United States promises a strong response in the event of a nuclear test
The nuclear program aims to compensate for North Korean shortcomings in the field of conventional weapons with very specific military objectives.
"
North Korea needs a nuclear test to develop tactical nuclear weapons before deploying them near the inter-Korean border
," Cheong Seong-chang said.
The United States has already promised a "
strong response in the event of a North Korean nuclear test
".
But Washington, unable to pass new UN sanctions against the regime because of the veto of Beijing and Moscow, seems to have limited options to force
Pyongyang
to abandon the advance of its nuclear program.
►
To read: South Korea: in response to the North Korean test, Seoul and Washington launch ballistic missiles
Newsletter
Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_EN
North Korea
Nuclear
Kim Jong Un