North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘grave’ economic challenge
December 30, 2019
4:57 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned top ruling party officials of the “grave situation” facing the nuclear-armed state’s economy and called for urgent corrective measures.
His comments, reported Monday by state media, came on the second day of a key party meeting held ahead of a year-end deadline for Washington to shift its stance on stalled nuclear talks with Pyongyang.
Kim, who chaired the meeting, said the time had come to bring about a “decisive turn” in the North’s economic development.
He presented the assembled officials with “tasks for urgently correcting the grave situation of the major industrial …
