(Seoul) North Korea’s parliament will hold its next session in September to consider new laws and other organizational matters, the state news agency said Monday.
Posted yesterday at 10:35 p.m.
North Korea’s legislature only meets once or twice a year, usually for one-day sessions to approve budgets or other decisions deemed necessary by the ruling Workers’ Party.
“The 7e session of the 14e DPRK’s Supreme People’s Assembly will be convened in Pyongyang on September 7,” the KCNA news agency reported, using the initials of North Korea’s official name, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“The session will discuss the issue of passing the Socialist Rural Development Law and the Law on Landscaping, as well as organizational matters,” she added.
These meetings are closely followed by observers to detect any change in economic policy or any reshuffling of senior officials.
It is unclear whether leader Kim Jong-un will attend the next meeting, having missed the last session in February this year.
In a separate dispatch, KCNA said Pyongyang would hold a meeting earlier this month to review the “successes, experience and lessons of the state’s anti-epidemic emergency work”.
In recent days, North Korea reported “no new cases of COVID-19 fever”. Pyongyang also claimed that everyone who had fallen ill since the Omicron wave in May had now recovered.