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DPRK party meet to choose successor
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September 22, 2010, Wednesday
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NORTH Korea's ruling party will hold its biggest meeting in decades on September 28 to pick a new leadership, state media reported yesterday, and likely anoint an heir to Kim Jong-il.
Kim, who is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, has reportedly accelerated succession plans, and analysts say his youngest son, Kim Jong un, is likely to be given an official title at the Workers' Party conference.
The North's KCNA news agency said the conference would be held in Pyongyang "for electing its supreme leadership body", but provided no further details of the agenda.
The meeting had been slated to start in early September. The report made no mention of the delay. Party meetings have been held around the country to elect delegates to the conference, KCNA said.
"The meetings elected working people and officials who have displayed patriotic devotion at the work sites for effecting a fresh revolutionary surge, remaining intensely loyal to the party and revolution as delegates to the conference," it said.
Next week's meeting will be the biggest gathering of North Korea's political elite since 1980, when Kim himself began his official role to succeed his father and state founder by taking on a Workers' Party title at age 38.
The 68-year-old leader, however, is not expected to go into retirement just yet despite his health, experts say, as his 20-something son, Kim Jong un, is considered too young and inexperienced.
Kim, who is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, has reportedly accelerated succession plans, and analysts say his youngest son, Kim Jong un, is likely to be given an official title at the Workers' Party conference.
The North's KCNA news agency said the conference would be held in Pyongyang "for electing its supreme leadership body", but provided no further details of the agenda.
The meeting had been slated to start in early September. The report made no mention of the delay. Party meetings have been held around the country to elect delegates to the conference, KCNA said.
"The meetings elected working people and officials who have displayed patriotic devotion at the work sites for effecting a fresh revolutionary surge, remaining intensely loyal to the party and revolution as delegates to the conference," it said.
Next week's meeting will be the biggest gathering of North Korea's political elite since 1980, when Kim himself began his official role to succeed his father and state founder by taking on a Workers' Party title at age 38.
The 68-year-old leader, however, is not expected to go into retirement just yet despite his health, experts say, as his 20-something son, Kim Jong un, is considered too young and inexperienced.
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