US Watching as North Korea Opens Biggest Political Meeting in Decades

North Korea has opened one of its biggest political meetings in 36 years, as the 7th Workers' Party Congress began meeting Friday in Pyongyang. However, foreign journalists who traveled to Pyongyang for the event were not immediately allowed inside. The United States is in close consultation with its Asian allies to monitor the situation on the Korean Peninsula during the high-level meeting of party representatives, which is expected to result in a reshuffling of some top...

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