DPRK vows to improve external ties
PYONGYANG-Kim Jong-un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, vowed to further improve the country's social system and foreign relations in an address to the congress of the ruling party, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
Kim suggested practical ways to give full play to the advantages of the country's social system, as he reported to the third-day session of the eighth congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Thursday.
In his report reviewing the work of the ruling party's seventh Central Committee, Kim analyzed and evaluated in depth the shortcomings exposed and lessons drawn from work in the past five years, setting forth "directions and ways for opening up a fresh golden age" by carrying out reforms in such fields as "education, public health, literature and arts", the KCNA reported.