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N. Korea to hold party congress on May 6

April 26, 2016

SEOUL, (Yonhap) — North Korea said Wednesday that its ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) plans to hold its party congress late next week, a move expected to reaffirm North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s tighter grip on power.

The WPK’s 7th congress will start May 6, according to the North’s state-run broadcaster.

It will be the first party congress since October 1980, when the WPK last convened the meeting of the party’s highest-level political guidance body.

The party congress is widely expected to serve as a key event that will reveal the North Korean leader’s policy direction in his fifth year in power. Kim inherited power following the sudden death of his father Kim Jong-il in late 2011.