North Korea is almost done preparing for the rare communist party that will be happening on May 6. The workers party that is deemed as a nationwide call to action by the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place in the "April 25 House of Culture" convention center in the North Korean capital.
Before the once-in-a-generation political gathering, a citywide alarm has been set to wake citizens early morning. For over two months, a majority of the Pyongyang residents have been busy preparing the city for the biggest political event of the year.
The seventh Congress of Workers' Party set at 9 a.m. on Friday is the highest political assembly held in the country, according to CNN. The gathering is the first communist party in three decades after Kim II Sung, the founder and president of North Korea hosted it in 1980. During the time, Sung announced his son, Kim Jong II as his successor.
"We the Korean people think our leader Kim Jong Un is just like our father, just like our mother. And so we trust him and we do our best for building a thriving country," Hyon Un Mi, one of the workers preparing for the poltical occasion told the publication.
In other news, it is expected that Kim Jong Un will be reclaiming his position as North Korea's supreme leader during the event. An election of a new central committee, which will be filled by loyalists and the proclamation of his byungjin policy are also anticipated to happen at the workers' party, New York Times reported.
Above all else, the president of North Korea is expected to reveal his planned nuclear power and economic development programs. In January, North Korea received a stringent international sanction after he ordered a hydrogen bomb test on the same week of his birthday. The U.S. government, South Korea and other allies believed that a fifth nuclear test is possible before or during the workers' party.
Despite the sanction, North Korea even showed its power by trying to launch two Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles that only failed. Since then, they have hinted of even introducing a submarine missile test.
A large number of foreign journalists are invited to witness the one-time political event. Security has been heightened as more and more participants and international guests flock the North Korea's capital.
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