N. Korea to hold key party convention next week
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North Korea confirmed Tuesday a major communist party convention will be held next week, as observers speculated that the secretive regime's aging leader was ready to give his son an important position to pave the way for his succession.
Now 68, and reportedly in poor health two years after suffering a stroke, Kim Jong Il is believed to be bolstering his plan to take the Kim dynasty into a third generation by appointing his heir to top party posts at the Workers' Party convention. Delegates will meet Sept. 28 to elect new party leaders, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday in a dispatch from Pyongyang. (AP)
