North Korea launched a new specialized team to promote its local development project after Kim Jong Un announced that the military would construct 20 new factories every year for a decade. Kim Jong Un mobilized high-ranking officials from the party and government for this specialized team. Still, its prospects remain unclear due to the DPRK’s poor infrastructure. 

The country also organized a workshop for party officials in the field of Party discipline inspection for the first time. South Korea’s Ministry of Unification interpreted this event as “evidence that there is an increasing demand for internal control