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Saturday, June 05, 2021, 12:23
DPRK’s Kim appears in public for first time in month
By Agencies
Saturday, June 05, 2021, 12:23 By Agencies

In this photo provided by the DPRK government, leader Kim Jong-un attends a meeting in Pyongyang, June 4, 2021. (KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY/KOREA NEWS SERVICE VIA AP)

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s leader Kim Jong-un made his first public appearance in about a month, with state media showing him at a Party meeting that discussed ways to improve the country’s economy.

Kim Jong-un said it was time to take “additional state measures for solving pending problems urgent for the economic work and people’s living,” according to official Korean Central News Agency 

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Kim, wearing his signature black Mao suit, said it was time to take “additional state measures for solving pending problems urgent for the economic work and people’s living,” according to official Korean Central News Agency Saturday. A plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Party will be held in early June, KCNA said.

Kim also reviewed the “execution of major policy tasks in different fields” in the meeting, the state media said.

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Kim’s last public appearance was on May 6, when he posed for a photograph after a gathering for military families, according to NK News, a website that focuses on DPRK news.


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