North Korea will convene a Workers’ Party Congress in Pyongyang on Friday for the first time since Jimmy Carter was president. Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un’s grandfather, convened the first six such party congresses, where a party-based juche doctrine of national self-reliance was put forward as the ideological foundation for the North Korean state. At the last such Workers’ Party Congress in 1980, Kim Il-sung named his son Kim Jong-il as heir apparent to the Kim family regime.

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