North Korea’s First Session of the 14th SPA began on April 11, marking the first multiple-day parliamentary session since 2000.

It was preceded by two consecutive party meetings on April 9 and 10, where the party leadership discussed domestic political and economic issues and reshuffled party ranking members.  

As recapitulated in today’s NK News article, the ongoing SPA discussed four agenda items: 1) election of the DPRK State Affairs Commission (SAC); 2) election of DPRK state leading organs; 3) amending and revising the DPRK socialist constitution; and 4) summing up the state budget execution for 2018 and reviewing the state budget for