Thousands of delegates from across the communist nation gathered in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, on Friday for what has been billed as the North’s most important political show in decades.
The country’s leader, 33-year-old Kim Jong-Un, was expected to deliver a keynote address at the gathering, the first since a 1980 congress that saw his father, Kim Jong-Il, in his turn the son of North Korea’s founding leader, Kim Il-Sung, designated as heir apparent.