SEOUL: North Korea’s ruling party will hold an important meeting in June to review the country’s economic plans.
According to Reuters, the report said that the critical meeting would review the implementation of the country’s national economic plans in the first half of 2023 and discuss “policy problems of substantial significance” in developing its revolution.
It would mark the plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the country’s ruling party.
The previous plenary meeting was held in February to discuss improving the agricultural and economic sectors amid fears of food shortages.
North Korea criticized recent joint army drills between South Korea and the United States as “dangerous war gambles” in a separate commentary carried by KCNA also on Monday.
The commentary read, “It is no exaggeration to say that the war scenario for aggression on the DPRK has already entered its implementation stage through the training stage.”
The criticism comes after the two countries kicked off the joint army exercises on Thursday, the first of their kind since 2017.
Dubbed the Combined Joint Live-Fire Exercise, military drills participated some 2,500 armed troops from 71 units and around 600 army assets mobilized by the partners just 25 kilometres south of the inter-Korean border to demonstrate their army capability amid North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
