The seventh congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea opened in Pyongyang on Friday. The North is holding such an event for the first time in 36 years.
 
British broadcaster, BBC, said that “North Korea is holding its first party congress in decades, as leader Kim Jong-un seeks to cement his status and chart a vision for the future.”
 
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Pyongyang said that Kim is already inside the hall and his guards are lined up outside the venue.
 
The North’s media actively boasted about the ruling party and idolized Kim upon the party gathering.
 
The Korean Central Television aired a special program from 8:30 a.m. Friday and said that the significant day of the opening of congress had come, describing it as a glorious gathering of winners.
 
The report added that the congress is the largest political commemoration in the ruling party’s history and expressed gratitude to Kim for opening the congress.
 
The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party, said in an editorial on its first page that the seventh congress is a gathering of winners that will be specially mentioned in the party’s history and humankind.
 
The paper claimed that under Kim’s leadership, an epic poem of great change admired by the world has been embroidered and the strength of the nation has been sharply reinforced.