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N. Korea To Hold Parliamentary Session Wednesday

Written: 2016-06-29 08:45:20Updated: 2016-06-29 09:29:44

N. Korea To Hold Parliamentary Session Wednesday

North Korea will hold its fourth session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang on Wednesday.

An official of Seoul’s Unification Ministry said the North is likely to use the gathering to endorse follow-up measures to the government’s decisions made during the seventh congress of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party early last month.

The official said the regime will likely conduct organizational and personnel reshuffles, discuss constitutional revisions, enactment and amendment of laws, as well as complete a power structure aimed at establishing Kim Jong-un’s monolithic leadership.

Many experts on North Korea are predicting that Kim’s official title could change from his current title of first chairman of the National Defense Commission(NDC) to one that will lend further support to his one-man leadership.

Jeong Seong-jang at Sejong Institute said it is highly likely that the North will put the NDC, Pyongyang's chief decision-making body, under the wing of the newly-rejuvenated Central Committee of the Workers’ Party. 

So far, the North has customarily convened an SPA session to approve the changes in government policies. SPA is largely considered as a rubber-stamp organization for the North Korean dictatorship. 

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