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DPRK to convene 4th session of 13th national legislature: state media

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The fourth session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will be convened here on June 29, the official news agency KCNA reported Thursday.

The decision was made Tuesday by the Presidium of the SPA, the highest legislative body of the DPRK, the KCNA said in a brief dispatch without further elaboration.

The SPA is convened once or twice a year. The first session of the 13th SPA re-elected top leader Kim Jong Un as the first chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) and Pak Pong Ju as the premier of the DPRK cabinet in April 2014.

Kim was absent from the third meeting of 13th SPA convened in April last year. Pak made a report instead, addressing the issue of feeding the population. Personnel adjustment for the NDC was also made at the meeting.

The 13th SPA elected 687 deputies from across the country for a five-year term in March 2014.

The SPA has the power to adopt, amend or supplement enactments to the constitution, determine state policies and budgets, and adjust the country's leadership. Endi