Washington Post: North Korea's ruling party is readying for a rare congress
YONGYANG, North Korea — The streets of Pyongyang, this most Potemkin of villages, are festooned with red this week, as the North Korean regime prepares to open the seventh congress of its ruling Workers’ Party.
It will be the highest meeting of the communist organization through which the Kim family has kept a grip on this state for three generations, and the first such confab since 1980 — several years before the current leader, Kim Jong Un, was even born.
And no effort is being spared in the lead-up to the event.
The entire country has been caught up in a “70-day speed battle” to prepare for the congress, painting buildings bright colors, decorating hedges with colored lights and attaching red Workers’ Party flags to street lamps — which, unusually, are even illuminated.
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It's party time as North Korea holds Workers' Party congress in Pyongyang -- Sydney Morning Herald
North Korea ramps up security ahead of national congress -- The Guardian
North Korea has reportedly banned freedom of movement in and out of Pyongyang -- Reuters
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