North Korea holds key parliamentary meeting amid heightened tension


  • World
  • Wednesday, 09 Oct 2024

FILE PHOTO North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with leading officials of the Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang North Korea in this photo released by North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency on September 10 2024. KCNA via REUTERSFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with leading officials of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 10, 2024. KCNA via REUTERS/File Photo

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea held a session of its Supreme People's Assembly this week, state media KCNA said on Wednesday, although there was no mention on whether it had officially changed its stance on unification between the Koreas.

Tensions on the Korean peninsula have increased this year amid a series of missile tests and a push by Pyongyang to change how it relates to the South.

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