North Korea’s ruling party has announced that it will hold its congress every five years, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Saturday, as leader Kim Jong Un seeks to regularize important regime meetings.
Prior to the amendment to the party’s rules, the congress — where Kim has announced key regime decisions and plans, including at the current one — had been sporadically held, with the last one in 2016 marking the first in 36 years.
The move came on Friday, the fifth day of the ruling party’s congress, where Kim has announced a spate of policy plans, including a goal to bolster the county’s nuclear arsenal. North Korean state-run media typically reports on key events a day after they are held.