North Korea on Wednesday announced the opening date of country’s Seventh Congress of the Worker’s Party of (WPK) as May 6.

Exclusive images obtained by NK News show that many propaganda banners for the upcoming Party Congress have been put up in at least one city bordering China – Sinuiji, in the Sinuiji Special Administrative Region – as well as the nation’s capital of Pyongyang.

“The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) on Tuesday made public the following decision on opening the Seventh Congress of the WPK … on