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Kim Jong-un to call ruling party meeting as North Korea faces worst economic crisis since 1990s | South China Morning Post

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly set to open a massive ruling Workers’ Party congress in January 2021. The meeting is expected to give him a chance to try and muster stronger public loyalty and lay out new economic and foreign policies amid the Covid-19 pandemic. North Korea has not officially confirmed…

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