North Korea will hold the first session of its new Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) to deliberate on the election of state leadership and revision to the constitution, state media reported Tuesday. The upcoming session comes after North Korea held elections last Sunday to select deputies for a new term of the SPA following last month’s Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. “The session is to deliberate on the election of the president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the elections of the state leadership and sub-committees of the SPA, the revision and supplement of the Socialist Constitution,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The meeting will also discuss carrying through the five-year plan for national economic development adopted at the congress and the state budget for 2026, the KCNA said. Key points of attention for the session include whether the North would codify its policy of defining the two Koreas as “two countries hostile to each other” in the constitution, as well as whether leader Kim Jong-un would issue further mes
