{"id":26362,"date":"2021-01-06T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/north-korea-congress-kim-jong-un-economic-plan-failure-mistake-biden"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:49:45","slug":"north-korea-kim-jong-un-says-economic-plan-a-near-total-failure-at-rare-political-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26362","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Kim Jong-un says economic plan a near-total failure at rare political meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader kicks off his second Workers\u2019 party congress by admitting strategy fell short in \u2018almost every sector\u2019<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his five-year economic plan has failed to meet its goals in \u201calmost every sector\u201d as he kicked off the ruling Workers\u2019 party congress, state media KCNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rare political gathering, which Kim last hosted in 2016, has drawn international attention because he is expected to unveil a new five-year economic plan and address foreign policy, just two weeks before the US president-elect, Joe Biden, takes office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/north-korea-congress-kim-jong-un-economic-plan-failure-mistake-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader kicks off his second Workers\u2019 party congress by admitting strategy fell short in \u2018almost every sector\u2019North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his five-year economic plan has failed to meet its goals in \u201calmost every sector\u201d as he kicked off the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions\/26399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}