If the Biden administration is to make any progress on the denuclearisation of North Korea, it will need to seek better co-ordination not just with allies South Korea and Japan, but also China.
For a week starting on January 5, North Korea held its 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the second time such a meeting has been held under Kim Jong-un’s leadership and only the third time since 1980.
As the highest ruling organ of the Workers’ Party, the Congress provides a window into the thinking of the North Korean elite about the future policy direction of this isolated country.
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Ben Ascione is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is also the Japan editor at East Asia Forum and a research associate at the Japan Centre for International Exchange.
