NKorea convenes top-level meeting over ‘tense situation’ – KCNABy The Manila TimesSEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called a full meeting Wednesday of a top committee of the ruling Workers’ Party to address what he described as the “prevailing tense situation,” state media reported. But the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) appeared to indicate that Kim may be focussing on Pyongyang’s continued push to develop its economy. In a meeting with senior officials Tuesday, Kim ordered them to display “an attitude befitting the masters of the revolution and construction under the prevailing tense situation and thus follow through on the new strategic line of the Party,” KCNA reported. In Vietnam both sides expressed willingness to talk further and Trump has repeatedly said he maintains good relations with his North Korean counterpart. A senior Pyongyang diplomat told reporters last month that the North was considering suspending nuclear talks with the US.

Source: Manila Times April 10, 2019 03:11 UTC