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This weekend saw two high-profile political events take place in Pyongyang, as is common in North Korea every April: a meeting of the Political Bureau of Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) on April 11 and the third session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) April 12.

State media reporting on the two major events clarified some recent questions about goings-on inside the DPRK. One question among them was whether the five-year strategy for national economic development — due