Policy bombshells and NYE concert: What to expect as North Korea wraps up 2021
Kim Jong Un may make New Year’s speech at party plenum this week to announce major policy decisions
Sogwang Media Company (left, Jan. 4, 2021), KCNA (right, June 16, 2021) | Dancers perform on stage during the 2020-21 New Year's Eve concert in central Pyongyang (left, Sogwang Media), and Kim Jong Un speaks during the last party plenum in June 2021 (right)
North Korea is set to end 2021 with a bang, as the country prepares to host a party plenum in the coming days that could produce major foreign policy announcements and mark a key anniversary for Kim Jong Un’s first decade in power.
Kim has used speeches around the new year holiday in the past to make friendly overtures to the U.S. and South Korea, but also to reveal nuclear weapon developments and other military plans.
North Korea is set to end 2021 with a bang, as the country prepares to host a party plenum in the coming days that could produce major foreign policy announcements and mark a key anniversary for Kim Jong Un’s first decade in power.
Kim has used speeches around the new year holiday in the past to make friendly overtures to the U.S. and South Korea, but also to reveal nuclear weapon developments and other military plans.
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