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Fri, January 27, 2023 | 17:42
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北 4월13일 김정일 사후 첫 최고인민회의
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North Korea will convene a parliamentary session in April, the country's state media reported Saturday, amid its preparations to launch a rocket that could further heighten tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Supreme People's Assembly will hold a session on April 13, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch, without elaborating on its agenda.

It will be the first parliamentary session since North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un took over the communist country following the death of his father Kim Jong-il in December.

The North is also scheduled to hold the Workers' Party conference in mid-April for an apparent attempt to further consolidate the untested young leader's grip on power.

The announcement came as Pyongyang's preparations for a rocket launch "have entered a full-fledged stage of action" despite international condemnation and pressure to call it off.

The North has announced it will launch the rocket between April 12 and 16 to put Kwangmyongsong-3, an earth observation satellite, into orbit as part of its peaceful space program.

The launch is timed for the April 15 holiday, which is the centennial of the birth of the country's late founder Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un.

However, South Korea, the United States and other regional powers suspect the rocket launch could be a disguised test of the North's ballistic missile technology that is banned under a 2009 U.N. resolution.

On Friday, the North's Foreign Ministry warned that it is "intolerable double standards" for some countries to assert that the North is the only nation not allowed to launch satellites while the same countries launch satellites as commonplace events.

"If there will be any sinister attempt to deprive the (North) of its independent and legitimate right and put the unreasonable double standards upon it, this will inevitably compel the (North) to take countermeasures," the Foreign Ministry said in an English-language statement carried by a separate dispatch.

The ministry did not give any further details on what it meant by countermeasures.

The ministry said Pyongyang "remains unchanged in its stand to sincerely implement" its recent nuclear deal with the U.S. that called for a temporary moratorium on missile and nuclear tests by the North.

The North has also agreed to temporarily halt its uranium enrichment program and accept U.N. inspectors in exchange for 240,000 tons of food aid from the U.S.

"We have already invited a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency to discuss the procedures to verify the moratorium on uranium enrichment activities and are coming to sincere understanding for implementing the agreement with the U.S. side," the ministry said.

The ministry said that the North's satellite launch is "an issue quite different from" the February nuclear deal with the U.S., noting that the North clarified that the satellite launch is not included in the long-range missile launch at the three rounds of high-level talks with the U.S.

The U.S. has warned a North Korean launch would be "highly provocative" and a deal-breaker.

Also Friday, North Korea vowed to "take strongest countermeasures which no one can imagine" if South Korea "dares find fault with its nuclear deterrent and satellite launch and kick off" an anti-Pyongyang racket at next week's nuclear summit in Seoul.

Earlier this week, the North warned against raising the issue of its nuclear weapons program during the nuclear summit, saying it will regard any related statement as a declaration of war.

Still, South Korea has said that the North's planned rocket launch will be discussed bilaterally and multilaterally on the sidelines of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit that is set to open Monday. (Yonhap)

北 4월13일 김정일 사후 첫 최고인민회의
중순엔 당대표자회도 예정…김정은 체제 굳히기 북한 최고인민회의 상임위원회가 22일 "최고인민회의 12기 5차회의를 내달 13일 평양에서 소집한다"는 결정(87호)을 채택했다고 조선중앙통신이 24일 전했다. 최고인민회의 상임위는 이날 "최고인민회의 대의원 등록은 4월11일과 12일에 한다"는 '최고인민회의 소집에 대한 공시'도 발표했다. 우리의 국회 격인 북한 최고인민회의의 권한은 ▲헌법의 수정 및 보충 ▲대내외정책의 기본원칙 수립 ▲최고인민회의 상임위원장, 내각총리의 선거 또는 소환 등이다. 특히 최고인민회의에서는 국방위원장을 추대 또는 재추대할 수 있어 내달 열리는 12기 5차회의에서 김정은 당 중앙군사위원회 부위원장의 국방위원장직 승계 여부가 주목된다. 김정일 국방위원장은 지난 1993년 4월 최고인민회의 9기 5차 회의에서 국방위원장으로 추대됐고 1998년 9월 최고인민회의 10기 1차 회의에서 국방위원장에 재추대됐다. 전문가들은 김일성 주석을 '영원한 주석'으로 남겨두고 당 총비서직만 계승했던 김 위원장처럼 김 부위원장도 김 위원장을 '영원한 국방위원장'으로 남겨두고 노동당 총비서직만 계승할 것으로 보고 있다. 북한은 김일성 사후인 1998년 9월 최고인민회의 10기 1차회의에서 헌법을 수정, 주석제를 폐지하고 김 주석을 '영원한 주석'으로 추대했다. 한편 북한은 지난달 20일 노동당 중앙위원회 정치국 결정서를 통해 4월 중순에 당 대표자회를 소집한다고 예고한 바 있다. 북한에서 최고인민회의와 당대표자회가 잇달아 열리기는 매우 이례적이다. 이는 김정은 체제를 조기에 공고화하려는 의도로 보인다. (연합뉴스)
 
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