Analysts say Kim is clearly trying to pressure the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who inherits a derailed nuclear diplomacy from President Donald Trump. His negotiations with Kim collapsed when the two sides failed to agree on how to lift crippling US-led sanctions in exchange for North’s disarmament steps.
Kim also used the congress to announce new five-year development plans to salvage the broken economy. Some analysts say the prolonged sanctions combined with pandemic border closures and natural disasters that wiped out crops last summer are possibly setting conditions for a perfect storm that could destabilise markets and trigger public panic and unrest.
The KCNA said that huge crowds of soldiers and civilians gathered at a state-organised rally in Pyongyang Friday where they vowed to extend the “greatest glory” to Kim and “thoroughly carry out” the decisions made by the party congress. Choe, during a speech at the event, called for party members, government officials, civilians and the military to “thoroughly arm themselves with the main idea and main spirit of the and bring about substantial success and progress in the socialist construction with redoubled revolutionary enthusiasm”, the agency said.
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