North Korea: Kim Jong-un admits failures in economic plan as he kicks off party congress | South China Morning Post

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un admitted the country’s five-year economic plan had “tremendously fallen short of its goals in almost every sector”, state media reported, as he launched the ruling Workers’ Party’s first party congress in five years and only the eighth one held since the founding of the country on Jan…

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