North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Re-Elected As Chief Of Workers Party.

Pyongyang; February 2026: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been re-elected as Secretary-General Of The Nation’s Workers’ Party, extending his 15-year rule of the country’s sole governing party. The election concluded yesterday (22nd February), which coincided as the 04th day of the party congress, held every five years. During the event, Central Committee members were also elected, and ⁠some party rules were modified, it ‌said without providing details. 

On the 30th August 2019, North Korea‘s legislature approved changes to the constitution to solidify leader Kim Jong Un‘s role as head of state, elevating him to the status of his grandfather, the founder of the communist nation. The move came after Kim was formally named Head Of State and Commander-In-Chief of the military in a new constitution in July 2019 – that analysts said was possibly aimed at preparing for a peace treaty with the United States.

Kim’s legal status had then been further consolidated to firmly ensure the monolithic guidance of the Supreme Leader over all state affairs. Previously, Kim was simply referred to as “supreme leader” who commanded the country’s “overall military force”. With the 2019 amendment, Kim Jong Un had revived his grandfather’s head of state system. Since then, he has become a de facto head of state.

Coming back to this year’s programme – Kim assessed the party’s last five years of work and outlined new strategies and goals for the next five-year period. ⁠Speaking at the event’s opening session last week, Kim called the last five years a “proud period, in implementing the socialist cause of our own style”, while acknowledging challenges such as sanctions and “the global public health crisis”.

“Today, our Party is faced with heavy and urgent historic tasks of boosting economic construction and the people’s standard of living and transforming all realms of state and social life as early as possible. This requires us to wage a more active and persistent struggle without allowing even a moment’s standstill or stagnation”. Other high-level officials also delivered remarks at the Congress, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui.

For decades, nuclear weapons and military prowess came before everything else in North Korea, even as food stocks dried up and widespread famine, which Pyongyang denied existed, gripped the nation.

But since assuming power, Kim has also stressed the need to fortify the impoverished nation’s economy, while keeping military might as the top priority.

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