Kim says his party is focused on the tasks of ‘boosting economic construction and the people’s standard of living’. ⁠North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been re-elected as secretary-general of the nation’s Workers’ Party, extending his 15-year rule of the country’s sole governing party. Kim has been North Korea’s supreme leader since the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011. During this year’s Workers’ Party Congress, Kim assessed the party’s last five years of work and outlined new strategies and goals for the next five-year period. Ahead of the congress, Kim held a ceremony unveiling dozens of nuclear-capable rocket launchers, which he hailed as “wonderful” and “attractive”.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 23, 2026 13:51 UTC