{"id":16158,"date":"2026-02-23T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/nuclear-advances-touted-as-kim-jong-un-re-elected-at-north-korea-party-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:19:09","slug":"nuclear-advances-touted-as-kim-jong-un-re-elected-at-north-korea-party-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/nuclear-advances-touted-as-kim-jong-un-re-elected-at-north-korea-party-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear advances touted as Kim Jong Un re-elected at North Korea party congress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL, Feb 23 — North Korea’s ruling party touted nuclear advances as it re-elected Kim Jong Un to the top post of general secretary, state media said today, during a rare national congress.<\/p>\n

Thousands of party elites have packed the capital Pyongyang for a once-in-five-years summit of the ruling Workers’ Party, a gathering that directs state efforts on everything from diplomacy to war planning.<\/p>\n

The congress offers a rare glimpse into the political workings of reclusive North Korea, and is widely seen as a forum for Kim to flex his grip on power.<\/p>\n

Military top brass made a “pledge of loyalty” to Kim as delegates rubber-stamped his re-election as general secretary on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n

The congress singled out Kim’s efforts to keep unnamed foes at bay by “radically” improving its “nuclear forces”.<\/p>\n

“He has energetically led the work to turn the Korean People’s Army, the pivot of national defence and pillar of safeguarding peace, into an elite and powerful army,” read a party statement.<\/p>\n

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“And thus (he has) built the revolutionary armed forces capable of coping with any threat of aggression on their own initiative and fully prepared for any form of war.”<\/p>\n

China’s President Xi Jinping hailed a “new chapter” in relations with North Korea after Kim’s re-election.<\/p>\n

In a striking display of his elevated status on the world stage, Kim appeared alongside Xi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a military parade in Beijing last year.<\/p>\n

Kim is expected to unveil the next phase in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme later in the days-long congress.<\/p>\n

Under Kim, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal has been transformed from a source of mild global concern to something treated as a genuine threat.<\/p>\n

It has been more than eight years since North Korea’s last nuclear test triggered a man-made earthquake underneath the northern Hamyong mountains.<\/p>\n

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Pyongyang’s atomic scientists have worked since then to harness this power in portable warheads that can be attached to long-range missiles.<\/p>\n

Kim unveiled a battery of huge nuclear-capable rocket launchers just days before the congress opened.<\/p>\n

Friend or foe <\/strong><\/p>\n

Photos released by state media showed dozens of launch vehicles parked in neat rows on the plaza of Pyongyang’s House of Culture.<\/p>\n

It is just the ninth time the Workers’ Party congress has convened under North Korea’s decades-spanning Kim rule.<\/p>\n

The meeting was shelved for decades under Kim’s father Kim Jong Il, but was revived in 2016.<\/p>\n

Analysts will scour photographs to see which officials are seated closest to Kim, and who is banished to the back row.<\/p>\n

Particular attention will be placed on the whereabouts of Kim’s teenage daughter Ju Ae, who has emerged as North Korea’s heir apparent according to Seoul’s national intelligence service.<\/p>\n

At the previous congress five years ago, Kim declared that the United States was his nation’s “biggest enemy”.<\/p>\n

There is keen interest in whether Kim might use the congress to soften this stance, or double down.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump stepped up his courtship of Kim during a tour of Asia last year, saying he was “100 percent” open to a meeting.<\/p>\n

Kim has so far largely shunned efforts to resume top-level diplomatic dialogue. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SEOUL, Feb 23 — North Korea’s ruling party touted nuclear advances as it re-elected Kim Jong Un to the top post of general secretary, state media said today, during a rare national congress. Thousands of party elites have packed the capital Pyongyang for a once-in-five-years summit of the ruling Workers’ Party, a gathering that directs…<\/p>\n

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