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DPRK ruling party convenes meeting to discuss stronger leadership

Xinhua, February 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the Korean People's Army Committee of the WPK convened an enlarged meeting to discuss strengthening party leadership, the state media KCNA reported Thursday.

Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un attended the meeting held on Feb.2-3, which focused on further strengthening the party on the occasion of the seventh WPK Congress slated for early May this year.

The meeting also focused discussions on the problems, including privilege seeking, misuse of authority, abuse of power and bureaucracy, according to the KCNA.

Steps to resolve such problems were put forward at the meeting, it said.

Kim stressed that this joint meeting, which is the first of its kind in the history of the party, is "of weighty significance" in strengthening the party ideologically and in terms of organization.

The meeting marked a significant event in "consolidating the unbreakable unity and cohesion of the leader, the party, the army and the people as firm as a rock," Kim added. Endi