North Korea Set for leadership meeting September 28

North Korea Set for leadership meeting September 28

North Korea's ruling communist party will hold a major conference next week to elect a new leadership. The meeting had been slated to start in early September. The meeting will be the biggest political meeting in North Korea since 1980.

The Workers' Party meeting will be closely watched for clues to whether the country's aging supreme leader. Kim Jong Il will succeed his father relies mostly on opaque clues. He eventually became leader after his father's death in 1994. Worker's Party of Korea said: "The conference of the WPK for electing its supreme leadership body will take place in Pyongyang on Sept. 28."