North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un is re-elected by Congress as the General Secretary of the country\u2019s ruling Workers\u2019 Party for the third time. State media reported on Monday that Kim, 42, was reelected to the top post with delegates at the Congress crediting him for bolstering the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal and strengthening its regional standing. Kim has created a military capable of handling \u201cany threat of aggression\u201d and \u201cany form of war,\u201d the Congress announced, adding that his brave leadership is \u201creliably guaranteeing\u201d the country\u2019s future and \u201cboosting the pride and self-esteem\u201d of North Koreans. Kim was reelected as General Secretary of North Korea\u2019s Workers\u2019 Party with the \u201cunshakable will and unanimous desire\u201d of thousands of delegates on the fourth day of meetings Sunday, North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced. He has held the party\u2019s top post since 2016. The Congress is held every five years to elect the general secretary to serve as the party\u2019s top representative and leader. Kim is expected to announce his major policies on the military, diplomacy, the economy, and other areas for the next five years at the Congress, which kicked off last Thursday. Western political analysts believe Kim will likely use the assembly as a platform from which he will announce the nation’s new military goals, including strengthening conventional forces and integrating them with nuclear capabilities. He will also likely announce a new plan for economic \u201cself-reliance\u201d through mass mobilization, following gradual post-pandemic gains fueled by rebounding trade with China and arms exports to Russia. In the meantime, Kim\u2019s government has rejected dialogue offers from US President Donald Trump since the American president began his second term, urging Washington to drop its demand for North Korea\u2019s denuclearization as a precondition for talks. Kim has declared the war-divided South Korea a permanent enemy of the North as long as it is under US influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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