Workers' Party Congress: much ado about (almost) nothing? korea news

For a few months, North Korea watchers and media have been actively discussing the then-coming Seventh Congress of the Korean Workers' Party. It was not uncommon to hear that this Congress would become a major turning point, where Kim Jong-un would declare dramatic policy changes and perhaps embark on a wave of radical social and economic reforms. However, nothing like that happened. The Seventh Congress turned out to be what such pompous events have usually been - a boring exercise in self-congratulation, full of eulogies to the Kim Family, but little of any lasting substance. http://ift.tt/1rFNlUK