North Korean state media on December 4 released a rare Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee (CC) Political Bureau (PB) Presidium “decision” to hold a party plenum “in the last 10 days” of December. 

State media on December 4 also reported on the leader’s visit to Mt. Paektu “revolutionary battle sites.” Kim was cited as saying the purpose of the visit was to inculcate an “indomitable revolutionary spirit” in the people in line with the “necessary demands of our revolution’s current situation and environment, and with the arduousness and protracted nature of the revolution… seizing as the