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North Korea hosted its seventh Congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea on 6 May 2016, the first in nearly 36 years. It came to a close on 9 May. Once the announcement was made about this, speculations were abound engaging analysts to unravel if the event could be related to a generational reassignment of key personnel and announcement of new pro-market policies or a public reinforcement of nuclear weapons strategy. What made the Korea-watchers ponder was because of Pyongyang’s some recent conducts such as latest and fourth nuclear test in January 2016 followed by satellite launch, “’70-day battle” (a short-term economic campaign to maximize industrial and construction output with limited time and resources), and multiple conventional weapons and ballistic missile tests.
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