Kim Jong-un convened a North Korean Workers' Party meeting in a "tense situation"

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un summoned a meeting of senior workers' party leaders on Wednesday badyze what he described as a "tense situation"informed the state press.

The meeting of the central committee of the party will take place the first after the interview between Kim and US President Donald Trump, held in February, This will end without any substantive agreement. It also occurs after a vUrgent action by South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington.

However, an article in the official agency KCNA seems to indicate that at the meeting, Kim intends to focus on lPyongyang's efforts to develop the economy.

according to KCNAAt a meeting held Tuesday with senior officials, Kim ordered them to show "a compatible attitude" with which they should have "The leaders of the revolution in the prevailing tension situation and maintain the new strategic lines of the party".

In April, Kim said the party's "new strategic line" would be the "construction of a socialist economy" and that the search for nuclear development was over.

Kim did "a thorough badysis of the problems that require an urgent solution on the part of the party and the State", a point KCNA, adding that for the meeting of the Central Committee, "will decide the new orientation and new forms of struggle in accordance with the revolutionary situation in force".

The meeting will also take place before the opening of the new legislature, scheduled for Thursday.

Questions about the future

Trump and Kim held a first meeting in Singapore last June after signing a vague paper on "denuclearization of the Korean peninsula".

But the failure of both to reach agreements at a second meeting, held in Vietnam, raised many questions about the future of the overall process.

During the meeting in Vietnam, both sides expressed their determination to maintain dialogue and Trump repeated that he had good personal relations with Kim.

However, soon after this summit emergedn satellite photos suggesting resumption of activities at the Sohae Satellite Launch Center, a revelation that alarmed the international community when it was suspected that space or long-range launches were in preparation.

But Cheong Seong-chang, an badyst at the Sejong Institute, believes that it is difficult for Kim to choose a new political leadership while Trump continues to express his desire to continue the dialogue.

Wednesday's meeting could be rather to a reorganization of the party and its leaders, which could include Kim Yong Chol, the North Korean envoy in charge of talks with the United States, accused of being "the main culprit of the failure of the Hanoi summit," says the spokesman. 39; badyst.

"Perhaps to be replaced by a more flexible and pragmatic person, but if you hold it (in power), negotiations on denuclearization will not be easy ", add

In any case, North Korea has taken care not to personally criticize Trump. Before the sanctions, the North Korean regime had declared last month that it was "an action against humanity capable of destroying modern civilization and bringing it back to life." Stone age ".