Strategic Report
Vol.4 No.3 2026
North Korea’s External and Inter-Korean Strategies in the Aftermath of the 9th WPK Congress and the First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly
- Date
- 2026-05-13
- Authors
- Il Gi Kim
- Keyword
- Korean Peninsula
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abstract■ Through the 9th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (February 19–26) and the First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly (March 22–23), North Korea has entered the “Kim Jong Un 2.0 era” and established its policy direction for the next five years.- In proposing Kim Jong Un’s renomination as General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Ri Il-hwan stated that over the past five years, North Korea had “achieved a great victory unprecedented in our five-thousand-year history and clearly distinct even from the seventy-five years since liberation, and ushered in a new era.”1- South Korea’s National Intelligence Service assessed the 9th Party Congress as marking the transition to the “Kim Jong Un 2.0 era,”2 while the Ministry of Unification concluded North Korea has formally declared the Kim Jong Un era both in name and substance.3■ North Korea articulated its external and inter-Korean perceptions through Chairman Kim Jong Un’s Work Review Report4 at the 9th Party Congress and Government Policy Speech5 at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly.
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