About the Author

Wang Son-taek
Wang Son-taek is a research associate at Yeosijae (Future Consensus Institute) and a former diplomatic correspondent for South Korea's YTN news network.
Views expressed in Opinion articles are exclusively the authors’ own and do not represent those of NK News.
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.