Pyongyang, via the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, reported on Thursday that there will be a 70-day campaign to prepare the Seventh Congress of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) in early May.

The paper emphasized that outside pressure is responsible for the country’s harsh conditions and asserted the importance of ideological fortification, as well as an increase in production.

“There is a rule which accelerates our revolution: A revolution proceeds more powerfully in severe times, rather than in peaceful days,” reads the article on the second page entitled “Let’s win the victory in the 70 days of battle.”

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