The country is also facing major tasks in developing the state economy and achieving the set economic goals, said Kim during a speech on the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
As the state news agency KCNA reports, the holiday in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang was celebrated with several art performances and fireworks. A military parade is said not to have been held.
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North Korea’s economy, which was already battered by sanctions, has been in an increasingly desolate state since the corona pandemic. The country is still practically completely isolated from the outside world. Two Romanian embassy employees are said to have left North Korea at the weekend, according to the specialist medium NK News, citing informed sources. This closed the last diplomatic mission of a country of the European Union in North Korea.