North Korea begins key year-end party meeting, Kim hails achievements

North Korea's ruling party opened Tuesday a key year-end meeting to review its policies from 2023 and discuss a draft budget for next year, with leader Kim Jong Un hailing achievements in boosting "national power," the official Korean Central News Agency said.Kim, who presided over the plenary meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, in his report defined 2023 as "a year of great turn," in which North Korea "left a great trace in the glorious course of development in the efforts to improve the national power and enhance the prestige of the country," KCNA said Wednesday.The …READ FULL ARTICLE