North Korea says it will convene the Ninth Party Congress in late February, a major political meeting expected to define the country’s domestic and foreign policy direction for the next five years.

At a Politburo meeting attended by Kim Jong Un on Saturday, participants unanimously adopted a resolution to convene the Party Congress in Pyongyang in late February, the DPRK’s main party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported.

Party Secretary Jo Yong Won chaired the meeting, with other attendees including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, along with full and