North Korea to Hold Supreme People's Assembly on 12th... Kim Jong-un Absent (2nd Report)

North Korea held the Supreme People's Assembly on the 12th, according to the North Korean state media Korean Central News Agency on the 13th.

The agency stated, "The 3rd session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly was held on the 12th at the Mansudae Assembly Hall."

Kim Jong-un, the Chairman of the State Affairs Commission, who is not a delegate, appears to have been absent from the meeting.

North Korea had initially announced that the Supreme People's Assembly would be held on the 10th but postponed it without specifying the reason.

Earlier, on the 11th, North Korea held a Workers' Party Political Bureau meeting chaired by Chairman Kim.

Although the Supreme People's Assembly, which is equivalent to South Korea's National Assembly, is nominally the highest sovereign body with legislative power, in North Korea's party-state system, it merely ratifies the decisions made by the Party Political Bureau meeting afterward.

The Political Bureau meeting discussed measures related to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019 and 2020 budgets, and organizational issues.

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