On Monday, Kim oversaw the completion ceremony of 10,000 houses in Hwasong District, Pyongyang, which achieved the goal of 50,000 new houses in the metropolitan area set during the Eighth Congress five years ago, according to KCNA.
“Based on the transformational achievements … during the Eighth period, the Ninth Congress of the party will set a grander goal of restoration and creation,” Kim said, according to KCNA.
Meanwhile, KCNA said the representatives and audience set to participate in the upcoming party congress arrived in Pyongyang on Monday.
In the past two instances in 2016 and 2021, the Congress began three to four days after representatives arrived in Pyongyang, according to Hong Min, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul.
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