The Yonhap News agency is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called the current situation “tense” and urged politburo officials to follow through on the party’s strategic line of economic development with a spirit of “self-reliance,” state media reported Wednesday:
- The remark, made at an enlarged meeting Tuesday of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party, suggests the North is unlikely to announce any major policy shift at this week’s parliamentary meeting despite the no-deal breakdown of Kim’s summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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