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Kim opens North Korean congress by admitting policy failures

by Hyung-Jin Kim
| January 5, 2021 7:06 PM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un admitted that his economic development plans have failed as he opened the nation’s first full ruling party congress in five years, state media reported Wednesday.

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