Preparations are underway for further large-scale celebrations in North Korea to celebrate the Seventh Workers’ Party Congress, according to travel operators recently returned from the DPRK’s capital.

The celebrations will include a torch parade likely larger than the headline-grabbing event which took place in October, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers’ Party.

“No mention of a military parade but the torch parade looks to be bigger than last year. It’s not just students this time, it’s everyone,” Rowan Beard from Young Pioneer Tours (YPT) told NK News.

“I’d have thought (it would be a big