North Korea will hold the seventh Congress of Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in early May 2016, according to a Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) report on Friday.

It is the first time after the meeting will be held in 36 years, after the sixth congress in 1980.

Praising the achievements for 70 years since the establishment of the WPK, the statement says the DPRK will “hasten the final victory in the revolutionary cause of Juche under the guidance of Kim Jong Un”.

“The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee decides to convene the 7th Congress of the WPK